This week I spoke in the debate which proceeded the First Ministers statement on the Scottish Independence Referendum result and set out my belief that we must unite and work together to tackle the real issues that my constituents and people across Scotland discussed on the door step every day of the independence campaign. I […]
Tag: jobs
My Dunfermline Press column for August 2014: Skills and employment
Over the last few weeks I have visited a number of employers in the constituency and have been impressed by the commitment of employer to growing their businesses and working with Fife Council to create training, skills and apprenticeship places for young people. What Fife is demonstrating is that by forming a partnership between colleges […]
Apprenticeship and Training Priority
In May this year Fife Labour set out a key pledge to support and help create more apprenticeship and training places for Fife’s young people. Now some seven months on since taking control of the Fife Council administration at that election, Fife Labour has brought forward and agreed through Fife Council a £5m […]
Fife Labour announce apprenticeships and jobs programme
Skills – Apprenticeships – Jobs Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath MP Gordon Brown joined up with Fife Council Labour leader Alex Rowley on a visit to Kirkcaldy YMCA today as they launched the Fife Labour economic manifesto. Mr Brown and Mr Rowley had met with a group of young people from the YMCA a number […]