With young people’s attitudes to education and employment formed at an early age by family role models, social business CXL has launched an innovative pilot in the Shadsworth and Whitebirk areas of Blackburn, which aims to break the unemployment cycle that can exist in families, leading to young people becoming NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
Lancaster and Morecambe businesses are missing out by not employing young people, according to Lancashire recruitment experts CXL.
CXL’s Business and Meeting Centre has won a prestigious regional award for its first class service to customers.
Businesses in East Lancashire are set to benefit from nearly £1m to help them survive and thrive through the economic downturn.
Staff at CXL have smashed their own target by raising an amazing £3249.21 in support of their sponsored charity Nightsafe.
Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden dropped in on a seminar showcasing an online careers package that’s been developed to identify and support students who are at risk of dropping out of college.
C-xtra goes the xtra mile
1 September 2008
An award-winning toolkit created by CXL has won European funding to be developed in the overseas Education market.
C-xtra has been awarded €400,000 under the Leonardo da Vinci programme to enable its translation and delivery in Sweden, Portugal and Austria over the next two years.
C-xtra is an innovative online toolkit that helps class tutors identify students at risk of dropping out of college or sixth form more swiftly. Totally web-based, C-xtra is the first programme of its kind in the UK and last year won the Institute of Careers Guidance Award for Innovation.
The Leonardo funding will be match-funded by CXL in staff-time and it’s hoped that the resulting transfer of innovation with European colleagues will open up a raft of exciting new partnership opportunities for CXL.
