{"id":14500,"date":"2016-04-21T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=14500"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:38:00","slug":"govan-highs-unique-schoolemployer-partnership-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2016\/04\/21\/govan-highs-unique-schoolemployer-partnership-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Govan High&#8217;s unique school\/employer partnership programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2016\/04\/Gov-HS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14501 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2016\/04\/Gov-HS-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Gov HS\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Pupils at Govan High School are\u00a0given a unique opportunity to develop vital employability skills through a pre-apprenticeship training programme inspired by\u00a0Peter Crawford, volunteer\u00a0&#8216;Skills for Life&#8217; development officer\u00a0at Morris &amp; Spottiswood.\u00a0 Peter&#8217;s initiative to tackle the issue of youth unemployment\u00a0led to the\u00a0establishment\u00a0 of a highly dynamic partnership programme\u00a0with the local company providing expertise, equipment and hands on experience for\u00a0young people considering an apprenticeship as a career pathway.<\/p>\n<p>The successful programme now in its second year is expanding rapidly\u00a0delivering a number of\u00a0SVQ qualifications in painting and decorating as well as plumbing and joinery.\u00a0\u00a0The company contributed to this expansion by providing plumbing workshops, Health &amp; Safety training, and PPE for the students. In addition,\u00a0their HR team assisted in the interview and selection process for the programme, all vital\u00a0 transferable skills required to\u00a0gain employment.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see the latest report on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningtimes.co.uk\/news\/14418133.Pupils_brush_up_on_valuable_new_skills___at_school\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pupils at Govan High School are\u00a0given a unique opportunity to develop vital employability skills through a pre-apprenticeship training programme inspired by\u00a0Peter Crawford, volunteer\u00a0&#8216;Skills for Life&#8217; development officer\u00a0at Morris &amp; Spottiswood.\u00a0 Peter&#8217;s initiative to tackle the issue of youth unemployment\u00a0led to the\u00a0establishment\u00a0 of a highly dynamic partnership programme\u00a0with the local company providing expertise, equipment and hands on experience for\u00a0young people considering an apprenticeship as a career pathway. The successful programme now<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2016\/04\/21\/govan-highs-unique-schoolemployer-partnership-programme\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,91,90,39],"tags":[54,94,106,52],"class_list":["post-14500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attainment","category-broad-general-education","category-secondary","category-skills","tag-dyw","tag-employability-skills","tag-schoolemployer-partnerships","tag-skills-for-learning-life-and-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}