The three-year agreement, announced at the ALP's annual conference last week, will build on existing initiatives to develop the skills of this age group, including the use of 14- to 16- year-olds to tutor adults in IT in UK Online centres, which UfI also runs.
Other plans include setting up learndirect centres, which offer computer-based learning, in Romford, Essex, and Stockton-on-Tees, Northumbria, to pilot courses for excluded 14- to 16-year-olds.
Another key aim of the alliance between the education providers is to find ways of using computer-based learning more effectively in the workplace to deliver programmes such as Apprenticeships and e2e.
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