Thank you to everyone who attended the recent network meeting, focusing on skills. We had an exceptional lineup of speakers who delivered presentations on the following:
Martyn Johnson from the Engineering Construction Training Board (ECITB) delivered an overview of the ECITB and their work with industry around the areas of new entrants, project collaboration, qualifications and competence assurance;
Professor Kirstie Simpson from the University of Chester and the IDRIC Academic Lead for the North West Cluster shared some findings from her work on skills for industrial decarbonisation clusters;
Naomi Smith – Programme Director at South Hampshire College Group covered further education in the Solent region as part of the Department for Education’s Local Skills Improvement Fund, and
Anoushka Ottley – Executive Director for Business and Civic Partnerships at South Hampshire College Group; and Ben Giordano – from the education outreach programme H2GP.