Tag Archives: Apprenticeship

Dulux Academy trained an impressive 299 apprentices across this year’s National Apprenticeship Week. It designed four, free, bespoke online workshops which specifically align with this year’s National Apprenticeship Week theme ‘Skills For Life’, to provide apprentices with valuable skills and knowledge to further their careers and help futureproof the industry. …

The National Merchant Buying Society (NMBS) is calling on employers in the builder’s merchant sector to take advantage of government funding to re-skill staff and onboard new recruits through apprenticeships as it marks this year’s National Apprenticeship Week. The Government provides up to 95% funding for employers to hire someone …

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is, in itself, almost an act My placard-waving, DM-and-hoodie-wearing student activist self from my 1980s days at the University of Essex is probably hanging her head in shame.  Why? Because I found myself agreeing with more or less every …

Took my Chevvy to the levy, but the levy was dry Use it or lose it. That seems to be the idea behind the Apprenticeship levy at the moment. Or, more accurately I suppose, use it or someone else will. The Levy is, a tax to all intents and purposes, …

Baxi has held its inaugural graduation ceremony at the Coventry Building Society Arena to celebrate the successes of its first group of apprentices. The event recognised the outstanding achievements of Baxi’s first cohort of field engineer apprentices, its degree apprentices, and colleagues from departments across the company who have completed …

Selco Builders Warehouse has announced it has hosted its event to mark the achievements of more than 60 colleagues who have completed nationally recognised qualifications, it took place at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales. The majority of the apprentices came from Selco’s Rising Stars scheme, a management training programme designed …

Kerry Wilson, learning and development manager at the Builders Merchants Federation, will take part in an important panel discussion at the RCI Show discussing how we close the skills gap and recruit new blood into the industry – the show takes place on October 19 at the MK Stadium in …

Kerridge Commercial Systems announces it is supporting the Builders Merchants Federation’s Apprenticeship Pledge, and have committed to take on 70 apprentices. The BMF started the pledge to help take control of the skills gap in the building materials industry and stated they want to achieve 15,000 apprentices by 2030. “We …

The UK’s leading manufacturer of clay bricks in the UK has scooped a prestigious award in recognition of its world-class apprenticeship programme. At the Training Journal Awards, held on December 3, Ibstock Brick beat off competition from major brands to win the Gold Award in the Best Apprenticeship Programme category. …

It is important to help young people in their career by supporting them with training. At the start of June this year Aico enrolled its apprentices on to the EDA (Electrical Distributors’ Association) Customer Services training module. The EDA is the trade association representing wholesale distributors of electro-technical products in …