Kevin Brennan, Minister of State for Further Education, Apprenticeship Skills and Consumer Affairs at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, recently made what some may see as a radical approach to increasing the skills sets amongst the M & E community at large.
The minister has said, at a recent industry gathering, that he was considering new rules which could be built into all future public sector projects, and which would stress the duty on contractors to invest in the training of staff and apprentices.
What this would mean in practice is still somewhat vague but our investigations suggest that any public sector building and second fixing contracts offered to tender by the government, local authorities and other public organisations will have clauses which will “stress” that all staff must have received some vocational training. The spokesperson went on to say that this might include nationally recognised qualifications as inclusions in any such clauses.
So there you have it…..another solid reason to get that all important qualification!
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