Education Business News - A business club that has helped solo and micro business owners connect with others by offering training and support has revved up its regional profile by becoming a Gateway Provider for the Government s Kickstart Scheme.

Education Business News - The Growing Club CIC is a not-for-profit organisation, offering a range of business skills training for women, using a creative and alternative peer-support model. Based in Lancaster, Lancashire, the social enterprise has been in operation since 2018, with hundreds of women completing courses.

Education Business News - Mensa International is seeking to identify potential worldwide and nurture the next generation of trailblazers, as it marks its 75th anniversary. The largest and oldest high IQ society in the world has set up programmes in many countries to support gifted children who may otherwise be overlooked.

Education Business News - Lancaster s The Growing Club CIC has launched a short film as part of the Lancashire Innovation Festival. Voices from the Frontline is a thought-provoking film by women aged 50-plus - as business owners and employees - on their hidden skills and daily triumphs.

Education Business News - One of the region s leading bus companies is on the hunt for apprentice engineers to bolster its growing and highly skilled team of home-grown talent. Go North East is working with Gateshead College to recruit eight new apprentice bus and coach mechanical technicians keen to progress a career in transport engineering.

Education Business News - Young people looking to work in the creative sector are now able to gain skills and learn their trade in a way that completely reflects how the industry operates thanks to a new approach by Gateshead College.

Education Business News - A powerful industry-led consortium in Manchester is looking to build on the success of an award-winning higher apprenticeship scheme developed in Newcastle to create skilled jobs in the construction sector.

Education Business News - A primary school in Jarrow has beaten hundreds of other schools across the UK to secure sixth place in a national cycling challenge.

Education Business News - People from across the North East are to benefit from a new set of digital training courses to develop specialist skills and improve their opportunities of securing a job with local businesses.