AbleSkills Training - Moving Forward in 2010!
Despite slow progress by the UK to climb out of recession, AbleSkills has been pushing steadily forward with the continual development of their technical facilities in order to provide the best possible standard of industry training to their course students.
In response to the growing demand throughout 2008-2009, brand new workshops and teaching facilities, individually dedicated to both electrical and plumbing technical training, were rolled out across the AbleSkills campus, allowing for the obvious increasing student intake over recent years.
In addition, preparations are being made for the changes on the way which will be seeing the transformation of the City & Guilds Electrical 2330 NVQ, the Electrical 2356 NVQ plus the Plumbing 6129 NVQ to a single qualification. This to be called the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF 2357).
The changes are not due to come into operation until late in 2010 and will not fundamentally alter the level of knowledge and training requirements, as they are intended to greatly improve learning capability by making the course units easier to understand, more flexible and allow for interchangeable skillsets.
In addition, the new qualifications will also not affect the ability of AbleSkills to take you through a structured course development, in order to train you through the required levels to be fully ready and industry compliant within your chosen occupation.
You will still be able to commence at entry level and train through to obtain the necessary qualifications - and this also applies if you are in a mid career change. Your choice of training can be structured to learn ‘domestic-through-to-commercial’ electrical, plumbing, gas installation, tiling or associated building trades.
As before, training schedules are customised to be flexible to accommodate all types of availability, offering all time periods and durations from weekends, to short two day or five day courses through to three, six week training and more.
In addition, Able Skills offers the opportunity for those candidates interested to take the Plumbing 6129 NVQ, to study the Plumbing Theory at home, in their own time and own pace. Students can make their own decision as to when they feel ready to be assessed on each learning unit, before moving onto the practical hands-on workshop training.
Renewable -or - Green Energy, is going to play an increasingly vital and urgent role in trade skills training and both plumbers, electricians and gas installers will need to thoroughly understand their role in being a source of information – energy assessment – and working with the new technologies, such as Solar PV systems, air source or ground source heat pumps.
AbleSkills will be supporting the Government ‘green’ initiatives and financial incentives for domestic householders in its ongoing programme of dedicated ‘green energy’ training space development in 2010.
This means that all serious students who are seeking to enter the industry - either at entry level, mid career – or those currently in the industry who wish to update their present skills, can rest assured they will be receiving the best of the latest knowledge, training and expertise available anywhere in the UK.
Looking further forward to 2012 - much feverish national building and recruitment programmes are already underway. As an approved City & Guild Training Centre, Able Skills is undoubtedly, the premier industry trainer for London and The South East, and will continue to uphold their long standing tradition for serving the industry with the highest quality of trade skills training, for many decades to come.
We look forward to hearing from all our loyal and regular readers once again in 2010!
