The following organisations would welcome contact from you about the articles or reports posted on the site:
The CREATE Research Centre at University Campus Suffolk
http://www.ucs.ac.uk/home.aspx
For more information about CREATE’s work contact:
Will Thomas
01473 296578
University Campus Suffolk
Rope Walk
Ipswich
IP4 1LT
The Business Development Unit at
Suffolk New College
http://www.suffolk.ac.uk/working_with_business
For more information about the BDU, and the Literacy and Numeracy diagnostic materials, contact:
Sue Nunn
Telephone: 01473 296675
People Managers would like you to know about, and benefit from, the services offered by GradsEast - East of England's free graduate career and recruitment service. Visit http://www.gradseast.org.uk
GradsEast is a free recruitment site for employers in the East of England, established and maintained by the region's universities' Careers Services. The service is funded by the region's top universities, EEDA and supported by i10. GradsEast, a valuable source of job vacancies for graduate jobseekers, aims to encourage and facilitate the growth of graduate employment opportunities in the region and to support the local economy. It offers full-time and part-time jobs, work experience and temporary placements as well as professional help with employment and recruitment needs, without the agency fees.
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The following organisations offer information on employment issues:
ACAS
The UK government
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/index.htm
HM Revenue and Customs also sponsors research available at:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/research/activities.htm
The government’s Business Link site provides a wide range of factual information about running your business. It provides access to various documents, checklists and case studies on a wide range of topics including Finance and grants, Employing people, Health, safety, and premises, as well as regulatory updates. www.businesslink.gov.uk/east/
A website offering regular articles on a variety of human resource management topics is
HRM Guidehttp://www.hrmguide.co.uk/ Topics that it has recently covered are:
Employment Statistics - 17 September 2008
Employment and Immigration Law Legal Updates - 5 August 2008
Interim Human Resources Management - Reasons to be flexible - 27 June 2008
Businesses Failing to Control Internet Use –26 June 2008
Visit the site to see the full articles.
The government’s UK Trade and Investment website contains some useful information for employers. Look at the sector pages – there are 34. Visit: UK Trade We have selected 3 for direct links, but there are 31 more available from the sector index.
We have chosen the Ports and Logistics page, which has a Ports Sector Brochure to download (2008). Logistics
The Engineering sector pages Engineering
This has the booklet UK Advanced Engineering – Creating Excellence (2008) available for download.
And finally, the Energy sector pagesEnergy
Another HR site worth visiting is The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) www.cipd.co.uk . For specific issues, CIPD research can be viewed directly: CIPD Research.The associated online magazine is at http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/
The government has worked through its departments, and the Learning and Skills Council, to develop with employers, National Skills Academies in
Construction
Creative and Cultural
Fashion Retail
Financial Services
Food and Drink Manufacturing
Hospitality
Manufacturing
Nuclear
Process Industries
Retail
Sport and Active Leisure
The aim is to build a “network of employer-led, world-class centres of excellence delivering the skills required by each sector of the economy”. The national skills academy web site states that:
“employers will take control of the design and delivery of learning in their industry, working in partnership with government and top training providers, from both the public and private sectors.”
For more details visit:
http://www.nsacademy.co.uk/index.html
Locally, the National Skills Academy for Manufacturing has a regional spoke at Hethel Engineering Centre, Chapman Way, Hethel, Norwich, NR14 8FB 01953 859 131
The National Skills Academy for Financial Services has a regional training centre established at City College Norwich, Ipswich Road, Norwich NR2 2LJ, Tel: 01603 773311.
The National Skills Academy for Food & Drink Manufacturing has a regional training centre established at Poultec Training Ltd (Centre for Meat & Poultry Production), South Green Park Enterprise Centre, Mattishall, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 3JY, Tel: 01362 857100.