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  • Zoe Gibbons and Sarah Cooper

    Go North East apprenticeships drive industry award wins

    This National Apprenticeship Week (4 - 8 March 2019), the region’s biggest bus operator, Go North East is celebrating its young talent making a big impact – including two industry award-winning apprentices.

  • Colin Barnes, engineering director at Go North East

    Why I’m living proof that apprenticeships work

    To mark the start of National Apprenticeship Week 2019 (4-8 March), former apprentice Colin Barnes - now engineering director at Go North East, shares his views on the value of apprenticeships, from his own experiences to heading up the company’s award-winning bus and coach engineering and maintenance scheme.

  • L-R Steve McColl from JobCentrePlus, Keith Robertson from Go North East and Ivan Jepson from Gateshead College

    Award-winning recruitment scheme looking for next intake of trainees

    A first-of-its-kind training and skills programme launched to help local unemployed people get back into work while supporting Go North East’s recruitment of new bus drivers, has gone from strength-to-strength, with the region’s largest bus operator now looking for more trainees for its September intake.

  • Go North East operates 30 coaches for National Express

    Go North East commended for engineering excellence

    Significant investment into its award-winning employee training schemes combined with an injection of over £10million into new vehicles, technology and equipment has driven engineering improvements at Go North East, to achieve the highest standard available from the National Express Operator Awards in relation to its coach fleet.

  • Go North East engineering apprentice Jak Watson

    Lucky seven needed to embark on engineering careers

    This National Apprenticeship Week (5-9 March 2018), the region’s biggest bus company, Go North East is calling out to aspiring young engineers with a thirst for knowledge and the drive to develop hands-on skills to apply for seven coveted spaces on its award-winning apprenticeship scheme.

  • Kevin Carr Managing Director of Go North East with Director of Business Development at Gateshead College, Ivan Jepson

    Top 100 apprenticeship employer accolade for Go North East

    The region’s biggest bus company, Go North East has been named in the prestigious Centrica Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer list for its unique bus and coach engineering apprenticeship, developed in partnership with Gateshead College.

  • Go North East apprentices James (l) and Matthew Barnes

    National award acclaim for Go North East and Gateshead College

    The region’s largest bus operator, Go North East has won the Best Apprentice/School Leaver Recruitment Strategy accolade at the national Recruiter Awards for its apprenticeship scheme, implemented to tackle the industry’s skills shortage and running in partnership with Gateshead College.