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Found 139 funded projects. Funded projects are sorted in the most recent first.
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- Quality and skills training 'Spotlight on the industry'
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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 supportProject lead:British Drilling AssociationAmount awarded:£33,950Project 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
- Site manager training package
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:The Isle of Wight Construction Training GroupAmount awarded:£22,382Project summary:The project will deliver a package of training that will enable companies to upskill existing workers from the IOWCTG membership that is experiencing a shortage of qualified site managers. This is achieved by enrolling on the NVQ6 Site Management programme This programme is supported by classroom based face-to-face interactive training of Nationally recognised site manager qualifications which are not ordinarily available on the Island.
- Supply chain school – strategic partnership
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, New qualifications and courses, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:SKANSKA - on behalf of supply chain partnersAmount awarded:£2,510,496Project summary:The project delivers a 5 year strategic collaboration with the CITB as a trusted advisor on skills issues within the sector to significantly increase the level of training within the supply chain and help to promote and enable innovation.
A longer term relationship will allow the School Partners to plan more strategically, innovate, foster collaboration and offer an opportunity to work with our supply chains to both close the skills gap and address skills shortages.
After the project industry will have access to a free online learning platform where they can undertake skills diagnostics and access knowledge / training under the subjects of offsite, sustainability and BIM.
Contractors will be able, through membership, to access aggregated and anonymous data on the performance of their supply chain members that engage with the learning platform. Over 20,000 learning interventions will have been delivered to the construction workforce.
- Technical upskilling for SME builders
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Sectors and roles, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:Federation of Master BuildersAmount awarded:£47,000Project summary:The project seeks to address issues raised by LABC inspectors in terms of avoidable common defects in building work through lack of knowledge of changing building regulations. This project will lead to more efficient working and fewer customer disputes. This will be achieved through: half-day training workshops designed to keep small builders up to date with changing regulations and technical advances, raise standards, reduce defects to disseminate information about new techniques.
- The Manse Skills Academy - Withdrawn
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:New qualifications and coursesProject lead:GMG ContractorsAmount awarded:£49,153Project summary:The project will deliver a bespoke skills academy in the east end of Glasgow. This facility will have a range of activities delivered on the premises, which will include SVQ level 2 roofing & tiling award, a new learning module developed in partnership with CITB and our local college. The Academy will be able to respond to training GMG registered apprentices at very short notice, ie when the weather is inclement and they are sent off site.
- Recruitment and Assessment Capacity Building
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:Glasgow Clyde CollegeAmount awarded:£38,457Project 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:
- 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).
- 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.
- Assessment infrastructure (commission) Ayrshire
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:Ayrshire Coatings LtdAmount awarded:£8,560Project summary:An employer-led project to increase availability of on-site assessment provision in the Finishing sector, in Scotland and North England. This employer will upskill 3 employees to become qualified assessors through working in partnership with Ayrshire Construction Training Group.
- Assessor infrastructure (commission) - Dry Lining and Plastering Training Forum
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:Dry Lining and Plastering Training ForumAmount awarded:£92,000Project summary:Funding will be used to set up a new assessment centre where assessors for dry lining and plastering will be trained.
A key outcome of the project will be to strengthen the assessment infrastructure across GB in relation to dry-lining and plastering.
- Digital Leadership for the Construction Supply Chains (Giving leaders the skills to drive digital change)
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:Leeds Beckett UniversityAmount awarded:£115,171Project summary:The project will deliver digital leadership change through establishing a hub and spoke supply chain model. It will set the contractor as the hub and the supply chain as the spokes, and use this infrastructure to influence and upskill supply chain leaders.
The project will conduct digital audits of participating organisations, develop case studies and use them to create online and F2F training material for best-practice digital leadership which will be delivered training through the hub and spoke model to leaders in participating contractors’ supply chain organisations.
After the project, participating employers will have taken measurable steps to digitalisation. An online portal will be created that will house the case studies, training content and any lessons learned from the hub and spoke approach. This content will enable other supply chains to deliver the same leadership change programme.