8 February 2011
Waveney MP Peter Aldous today welcomed the Government’s announcement of a National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies. The academy will receive up to £2.5m of funding over three years, matched by employers. It will work with industry and training providers to ensure that employers in new areas of business such as the installation, maintenance and repair of photovoltaic panels, ground source heat pumps and biomass products have a highly skilled workforce to help them grow, and to support the Government’s ambitions for renewable energy and low carbon growth.
In its first 5 years, the National Skills Academy aims to deliver around 2000 publicly-funded and over 200,000 privately funded training courses. It will develop a network of 14 specialist training provider ‘hubs’, based in Further Education Colleges, with over 80 accredited training providers throughout England.
Mr Aldous wrote to local businesses this week offering information on the Coalition Government’s Apprenticeship Strategy and encouraging them to consider whether they are able to take an apprentice as part of the scheme.
Mr Aldous said:
“Government, employers and training providers must work together to deliver the skills that will enable our economy to achieve truly sustainable growth. With the significant opportunities in this sector in the Waveney area I am keen to ensure the area benefits and I will be liaising with Government Ministers and local training establishments.”
The accredited environmental technologies training delivered by the Skills Academy will be approved by SummitSkills, the Sector Skills Council for building services engineering.
The building services engineering sector employs over 600,000 people, including plumbers, electricians and heating engineers. The Skills Academy will play a key role in enabling these technicians to upgrade their skills in environmental technologies.
In its first 5 years, the National Skills Academy aims to deliver around 2000 publicly-funded and over 200,000 privately funded training courses. It will develop a network of 14 specialist training provider ‘hubs’, based in Further Education Colleges, with over 80 accredited training providers throughout England.
Mr Aldous wrote to local businesses this week offering information on the Coalition Government’s Apprenticeship Strategy and encouraging them to consider whether they are able to take an apprentice as part of the scheme.
Mr Aldous said:
“Government, employers and training providers must work together to deliver the skills that will enable our economy to achieve truly sustainable growth. With the significant opportunities in this sector in the Waveney area I am keen to ensure the area benefits and I will be liaising with Government Ministers and local training establishments.”
The accredited environmental technologies training delivered by the Skills Academy will be approved by SummitSkills, the Sector Skills Council for building services engineering.
The building services engineering sector employs over 600,000 people, including plumbers, electricians and heating engineers. The Skills Academy will play a key role in enabling these technicians to upgrade their skills in environmental technologies.
