Certification body NICEIC can now offer a new competency qualification for installers of Domestic Ventilation Systems. The new assessment package has been mapped against the relevant National Occupational Standards (NOS) and has been approved by SummitSkills – the Sector Skills Council for
With the distraction of a third government legal challenge to the December Feed-in Tariff reduction now ruled out by the Supreme Court, it is time for the PV industry to focus on the future, SummitSkills said today. The sector skills council for
Building services engineering is coming of age after years of work to bring together the four industries which make up the sector, with SummitSkills recently celebrating the successful completion of important milestone projects. SummitSkills says its work to ensure training, funding and
The amount of environmental technology training available is not enough to meet potential demand, and could lead to rogue traders and poorly installed kit, according to a new report by SummitSkills, the sector skills council for the building services engineering (BSE) sector.
The Wales national final of the SkillELECTRIC competition has named Jonathan Davies of Lloyd Morris Electrical as its winner after a challenging practical event at Yale College, Wrexham. Davies, a student at Coleg Menai, beat eight other competitors to win first place
Gloucester-based Clarkson Evans Training has been chosen to help prepare the UK electrical finalists for WorldSkills 2011. Chris Young and Scott Wigmore are competing to represent the UK in the world's largest skills competition, where young people from across the globe will
A new nationwide network of accredited training provision for low carbon and renewable skills has been given the go-ahead by government. The National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies will provide training in the design, installation and maintenance of technologies such as solar
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
New research by SummitSkills, the Sector Skills Council for building services engineering, has revealed the sector has a steep training climb ahead if it is to be ready for the future demand for environmental technologies. The new report, Potential Training Demand in
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