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Found 14 funded projects. Funded projects are sorted in the most recent first.

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Property Level Flood Protection Training & Development Toolkit
Funding theme:

Innovation

Funding topic:
Sectors and roles, Careers and recruitment, New qualifications and courses, Small employer support
Project lead:
Property Care Association
Amount awarded:
£2,296
Project summary:

The project will develop training essential to the upskilling of flood industry professionals in the area of Property Level Protection (PLP) The training will support employers working in Flood Protection. The project will pilot newly developed training materials and look to introduce an examination process leading to a certificated qualification.

Training media programme for heritage plastering
Funding theme:

Innovation

Funding topic:
Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Small employer support, Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
Dry Lining and Plastering Training Forum
Amount awarded:
£21,000
Project summary:

The project will develop a series of broadcast quality training videos explaining heritage plastering techniques for new and existing operators.

The funding will produce four modules covering the basics of heritage and plastering techniques.

Quality and skills training 'Spotlight on the industry'
Funding theme:

Training and development

Funding topic:
Changing industry culture, Careers and recruitment, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Small employer support
Project lead:
British Drilling Association
Amount awarded:
£33,950
Project summary:

The project is an awareness campaign which will emphasise the importance of employing competent, highly trained and professional companies and personnel; increase training of new Apprenticeships and increase NVQ uptake; ensure that educational institutions charged with training future workforces understand the importance of relevant and compulsory qualifications. It will produce a paper: ‘Spotlight on Industry’ - this paper will share findings devised from this awareness campaign. It will be published in industry-specific journals to raise awareness and trigger debate

Recruitment and Assessment Capacity Building
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
Glasgow Clyde College
Amount awarded:
£38,457
Project summary:

This project seeks to build the capacity of Glasgow Clyde College’s (GCC) work based assessment capability by creating a pool of occupationally competent and qualified training and assessment staff.  The aim of the project is to facilitate delivery of the new work based assessments that are being introduced to construction trades Modern Apprenticeships, particularly for those that are within scope of the CITB in Scotland.

Through significantly increasing the number of qualified assessors, the project will enable Glasgow Clyde College to provide:

  1. Work based assessments for CITB Modern Apprentices who are completing their programmes with Glasgow Clyde College (currently over 200 places with projected 30% growth in coming years).
  2. Offer this ‘Gold Standard’ service to other providers and ‘in scope’ employers across Scotland who do not have the capacity locally to fully cover the new work based assessment requirements of the CITB related MA programmes.