A new £1 million skills and training centre providing help and advice to graduates having a hard time finding employment during the recession is to open next month on the campus of Kingston University in Surrey. Open to businesses and professionals as well, the centre aims to offer one-to-one careers advice and training to 30,000 graduates over the next 18 months, according to the Surrey Comet. Also on offer are CV workshops and bursaries to help pay for training sessions and foundation courses. The centre, partly funded by the government's £27 million Economic Challenge Investment Fund, will help the area thrive despite tough economic conditions. Deborah Lock, the universities executive director of enterprise, told the newspaper: "It's incredibly positive and it's not all doom and gloom. We're looking to the future by giving students and graduates in Kingston the biggest advantage they could have in terms of training and skills." The Forum of Private Businesses recently said that the government needs to do more to provide small businesses with the facilities to train graduate recruits.
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