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By John Hayes
29 Feb 2012, Prince's Foundation, Shoreditch
John Hayes announces the introduction of a new set of awards for craft skills at the Prince's Foundation Apprenticeship Awards, and outlines plans for a new Craft Apprenticeship for the academic year 2013-14.
By John Hayes
15 Nov 2011, Birmingham
John Hayes speaks at the Association of Colleges Annual Conference
By John Hayes
3 Nov 2011, Thistle Hotel, Brighton
John Hayes speech for the Institute for Careers Guidance Annual Conference 2011
By John Hayes
12 Oct 2011, London
Skills Minister John Hayes unveils an upgraded and improved standard to underpin the new National Careers Service. The Matrix Standard will promote effective delivery of information, advice and guidance to millions of people through the new National Careers Service, which launches April 2012.
By John Hayes
6 Sep 2011, CBI, London
Minister for Skills John Hayes discusses the benefits of apprenticeships and outlines new Government measures to make it easier for employers to take on large numbers of apprentices.
By John Hayes
7 Jul 2011, Thame, Oxfordshire
John Hayes talks about the importance of high-quality careers guidance in schools.
By John Hayes
15 Jun 2011, Warwickshire College, Rugby
John Hayes talks to an audience of college Principals about his vision for the future of further education
By John Hayes
15 Jun 2011, London
The future of careers advice - raising the status of careers guidance
By John Hayes
9 Mar 2011, The Thistle Marble Arch Hotel, London
John Hayes argues that the success of the Community Learning Champions project is proof that the Big Society can become a reality.
By John Hayes
7 Feb 2011, British Telecom Headquarters, London
John Hayes speaks at the launch of Apprenticeships Week and announces new measures to raise the numbers and status of apprentices in England. "I am determined that those who want to set their feet on the Apprenticeships path should receive every assistance to do so from the Government".
By John Hayes
17 Nov 2010, International Convention Centre, Birmingham
Hayes outlines crucial role of colleges
By John Hayes
4 Nov 2010, Institute of Careers Guidance annual conference, Belfast
John Hayes talks about the importance of Apprenticeships and how Group Training Associations can help to achieve the Government's ambitions for work-based training.
By John Hayes
26 Oct 2010, Royal Society of Arts
John Hayes talks about the need to continue to promote the teaching and learning of practical skills, even at a time of reduced Government spending, and about his ambition to raise the social and economic status of crafts and those who practise them.
By John Hayes
29 Sep 2010, Institute of Directors, London
John Hayes talks about the importance of Apprenticeships and how Group Training Associations can help to achieve the Government's ambitions for work-based training.
By John Hayes
7 Sep 2010, British Library, London
John Hayes addresses a conference hosted by NIACE (National Institute for Adult Continuing Education). The event marked the publication of a report called Transforming Lives, which marks the end of the Transformation Fund which funded innovative learning projects. The minister congratulates NIACE on the success of the project and emphasises how learning can change lives.
By John Hayes
22 Jul 2010, Hackney College
"I believe that we can deliver more and save money. But we will only achieve cost effectiveness by challenging the orthodox assumptions about what skills are for, how they are funded and what role Government should play."
By John Hayes
14 Jul 2010, Riverbank Plaza Hotel, London
John Hayes talks about further education and how the coalition government will try to build a truly lifelong learning system.
By John Hayes
17 Jun 2010, City and Islington College
By John Hayes
10 Jun 2010, QEII Conference Centre, London
John Hayes describes the coalition government's new skills strategy.
By John Hayes
19 May 2010, Mermaid Theatre, London
If we want to build a bigger society as the Prime Minister has missioned us to, then we must recognise the value of community learning to civil society. In all its forms, learning is a powerful glue that can bind us together as families, as friends, as communities.
