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Connector manufacturer Harting has presented Northern Connectors, based in St Helens, Merseyside, with the company’s Specialist Distributor of the Year award for 2012-13.
EDF Energy has inaugurated a new Emergency Response Centre near the Sizewell B nuclear power station. When it becomes fully operational in March, it will complete a three year programme of work following the events at Fukushima.
Iain Macdonald, chief executive of training charity NET, has welcomed the reforms to apprenticeship funding, announced in the chancellor’s Autumn Statement on December 5. He said: “The plan to give employers funding for apprenticeships and the power to choose which training provider they work with is a positive move. It will firmly establish employers as the ‘customer’ when it comes to apprenticeship training, a move which has been a long time coming. However, the details still need to be ironed out, specifically the size of the employer’s financial contribution, and this will be critical. If employers are going to be required to make an increased investment, the government needs to be mindful of the fact that the real costs of training apprentices in different sectors vary considerably and set its funding expectations accordingly.”
