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Charles Clarke, secretary of state for education and skills, has announced the licensing of People 1st to become the Sector Skills Council for the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries.
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20 May 2004
The National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure was launched this week.
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21 Nov 2008
The government has unveiled a major investment programme for skills and learning in the UK.
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20 Nov 2007
SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council for the active leisure and learning sector, has welcomed Lord Leitch’s review, Prosperity for all in the global economy: world class skills, which sets out plans to make the UK a world leader in skills by 2020.
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05 Dec 2006
SkillsActive has submitted its business plan to the Learning and Skills Council, for the development of a National Skills Academy (NSA) for Sport and Active Leisure.
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04 Feb 2008
The government has today given the go ahead for a National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure.
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07 May 2008
Investment in skills within the leisure industry is crucial if the sector is to emerge from the recession as fit for purpose, according to a report commissioned by the government.
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26 Mar 2010
SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the active leisure and learning sector, has submitted a formal expression of interest to the government to lead a National Skills Academy (NSA).
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27 Jun 2006
Skills Minister Phil Hope today announced that sport and active leisure are among the next four sectors that have successfully bid to be part of the expanding National Skills Academy network.
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15 Jun 2007
SkillsActive has launched its new ActiveAmbition programme in a bid to drive
business growth by professionalising the active leisure sector and improving
standards.
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29 May 2012
SkillsActive has launched the findings of its Sector Skills Agreement (SSA), following months of consultation with employers and training providers within the active leisure and learning sector.
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27 Jul 2006
Following the July launch of the findings from its Sector Skills Agreement (SSA) in England, the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the active leisure and learning sector, SkillsActive, is to launch an SSA in Scotland on 18 September.
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11 Sep 2006
A new report from leading sport and active leisure industry employers, which outlines future skills requirements needed to ensure continued growth, has been welcomed by SkillsActive.
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05 May 2011
SkillsActive and ukactive have launched a survey to determine what employers
want for training solutions, in order to guide bids for a government scheme to
invest £340m in skills training and career development.
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01 Feb 2013
SkillsActive is moving ahead with plans to launch a National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure.
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05 Dec 2007
The Institute for Sport, Parks and Leisure (ISPAL) has become the first national institute to be awarded Academy Provider status by the National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure (NSA).
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23 Jul 2009
Suffice to say that the pandemic has completely changed the way fitness professionals work
and the way consumers work out – and therein lies opportunity.
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15 Sep 2021
A new training programme for fitness professionals aims to boost the effectiveness of
personal trainers by covering areas where skills are currently lacking.
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26 Apr 2016
Fitness professionals should use the coronavirus-induced lockdown – where possible – to enhance
their knowledge and develop skills ready for when the gyms and leisure facilities eventually reopen.
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01 Apr 2020
Government plans for a major shake-up of Post-16 vocational education have been met
with disappointment from the leisure industry, after the newly-proposed routes into skilled
employment appeared to overlook the sector.
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12 Jul 2016
The Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) is set to launch its Aqua Skills Festivals in 2007 to introduce more children to its pool-based activities.
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27 Dec 2006
New research shows that children who get involved with organised physical activity in the first two years of school develop more powerful reasoning skills
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Physical activity employers are concerned by the lack of soft skills possessed by
young personal trainers (PT) and believe these qualities require greater
prominence within industry qualifications.
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08 Dec 2014
Children who take part in organised physical activity or sport over their first two school years,
while also having better diets and spending more time reading have more powerful reasoning
skills than peers who don't have the benefit of these kinds of support or engagement.
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14 Sep 2023
SkillsActive is sponsoring a new skills development bursary aimed at coaches or leaders working with young people.
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16 Jun 2005
The Gym Group is seeking staff from the hospitality sector to help fuel its expansion as
the gym chain looks to inject extra dynamism and personality on the gym floor.
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02 Feb 2016
Around 35 per cent of European fitness operators believe PTs are not trained with the skills they
want, according to findings announced today (23 November).
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23 Nov 2017
Leisure-net Solutions will soon kick off its physical
activity management training scheme having become
– along with Right Directions – the first accredited
CIMSPA Skills Development Partners for Endorsed
Training.
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17 Nov 2014
Active leisure and learning sector, SkillsActive, has received its full licence from Secretary of State for Education, Charles Clarke.
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29 Oct 2003
SkillsActive - sector skills council for active leisure, learning and wellbeing - has been handed more than £500,000 in a bid to help meet skills gaps in the playwork and fitness sectors.
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25 Jul 2011
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As more people join clubs to support their mental
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New research has found BMI to be a highly inaccurate measure of childhood obesity, leading current thinking and policy based on it into question
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