SummitSkills, the Sector Skills Council for the building services engineering sector, has announced the first hub members who will lead clusters of training providers within the National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies.
The Skills Academy will play a major role in transforming the ability for businesses in the building services engineering sector to access key training and skills in the design, installation and maintenance of environmental technologies.
SummitSkills, the Sector Skills Council for building services engineering, is leading the National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies on behalf of the sector. Environmental technologies are becoming a key priority for employers in the sector so that the UK can meet its low carbon targets. As a result, the Skills Academy will ensures learners have the correct training, qualifications and ultimately the correct skills.
Each hub member will be responsible for leading a cluster of training providers in their region to deliver QCF accredited qualifications. The successful hub members are:
· Bedford College (East of England)
· Blackburn College (North West)
· Bradford College (Yorkshire & Humber)
· College of North West London (London)
· Cornwall College (South West)
· Dudley College (West Midlands)
· Hartlepool College (North East)
· Leeds College of Building (Yorkshire & Humber)
· Liverpool Community College (North West)
· Stephenson College (East Midlands)
· Stourbridge College (West Midlands)
· The Genesis Project (Somerset College) (South West)
· Trafford College (North West)
· Weston College (South West)
Keith Marshall OBE, chief executive of SummitSkills said: "Environmental technologies are becoming more and more popular in order for the Government to meet its commitments to the low carbon agenda. It is vitally important for the sector that employees are able to access the training they need to install and maintain renewable and environmental technologies.
"Working in partnership with our new hub and cluster members we can ensure that employers have access to high quality skills training in environmental technologies and we can work as a trailblazer for green skills."
The National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies is currently in the business planning stage and is due to be formally approved by the Skills Funding Agency in January 2011.