what we do
The North East Higher Skills Network works to:
- Ensure that learning opportunities meet employers' and learners' needs
- Identify solutions to the challenges employers face through developing the higher skills of their workforces
- Transform the information, advice and guidance available to young people and working learners to support them in making career choices based on full and accurate information
- Make information about learning opportunities easier to understand and access to help learners of all types clarify their options and encourage them to progress to and through higher level learning.
Why?
North East England is the poorest of the English regions and a primary cause appears to be weaknesses in the skills base. Only 21.3% of the North East population is qualified to level 4 (degree) or above compared to 26.2% in the rest of England (LSC, 2006).
NEHSN aims to reverse this trend. Its goal is to increase the higher skills and qualifications level of existing and future employees to breathe new life into the North East economy.
our Partners
- Bede College
- Bishop Auckland College
- City of Sunderland College
- Cleveland College of Art and Design
- Darlington College
- Derwentside College
- Durham University
- East Durham & Houghall Community College
- Gateshead College
- Hartlepool College of Further Education
- Hartlepool Sixth Form College
- Middlesbrough College
- New College Durham
- Newcastle College
- Newcastle University
- Northumberland College
- Northumbria University
- Open University in the North
- Prior Pursglove College
- Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College
- Redcar and Cleveland College
- South Tyneside College
- St Mary's RC Sixth Form College
- Stockton Riverside College
- Stockton Sixth Form College
- University of Sunderland
- University of Teesside
- Tyne Metropolitan College
