SKILLS GAP UPDATE OFFSHORE EXPERTISE
Between them, their offshore expertise includes: port operations, metal fabrication, support vessel operations, operations and maintenance, shipbuilding and repair, steel production, professional and marine services. Also analysis, research and development.
For the much of the last decade offshore wind has been a primary focus for THMA, which was set up in 1997.
HUMBER UNIVERSITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE
As one of the country’s leading renewables and maritime supply chain organisations, THMA’s work has gathered momentum with direct support for a new Humber University Technical College (UTC).
realising that specific industry skills are a priority THMA is now backing a Humber- wide partnership which lodged a bid last year with the Government to create the new Humber UTC for engineering and renewables training excellence. The centre is earmarked for a site in east Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
OPPORTUNITY
THMA, one of the Humber UTC’s advisory board members, is asking businesses, on the north and south banks of the Humber, to back the proposed college.
Mark O’Reilly, THMA Director, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for all companies, from the smallest to the largest to support the Humber UTC, which will bring a genuinely vocational, skills based and academic training facility focused on engineering and the renewables sector.
“We are
asking THMA’s own membership of more than 170 companies to support the Humber UTC and to see as many local businesses as possible to back the plans.
“A strong partnership of employers, education and public agencies is driving the bid to develop the Humber UTC. All partners have dedicated significant resources and time towards its development and are committed to providing the resource needed for the UTC to be a success.”
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS The other Humber UTC advisory board members reads like a list of Humber heavyweight industrial, business and academic institutions, including: Able UK, Centrica, Clugston, Total, Tata Steel, North Lincs Council, Outwood Grange Academies Trust, North Lindsey College and the University of Hull.
David Shepherd, Group Executive Director at Team Humber, a member of Able UK, developers of the Able Marine Energy Park, said: “When AMEP is fully operational 4,000 people will be involved in the commercialisation of renewables technologies on a global scale. To meet this demand for skills, schools need connecting to industry.
“The UTC gives key employers in the Humber the chance to take a direct approach and ensure the region’s people and businesses all get what they need – and what local people call ‘proper jobs’.”
SPECIALISED TECHNICAL EDUCATION UTCs are a new type of school for 14 to 19-year-olds, which deliver specialised technical education alongside academic subjects. They have two points of entry for
students who can join at 14 or at 16 after their GCSEs.
The Humber UTC will function along the same lines as those already launched in other parts of the country and be funded by the Department of Education. Nationally, five UTCs are already open, 27 more are set to open in 2013 or 2014, with 45 in total so far approved.
UNIQUE OFFER
“We have the right organisation in place, and are working on the curriculum ahead of a potential opening in September 2015,” added Mr O’Reilly, who will engage with SMEs to find out their needs and how graduates can find employment.
“The UTC’s offer will be unique; it will have the look and feel of a place of work and all students will have meaningful contact with employers and the opportunity to work on real work projects.
“Students’ progress will be measured against competencies set out by employers so that they understand the direct relevance of their skills and knowledge to the world of work or further study.
“This focus means that no student should leave the UTC without finding work or progressing to further study.”
Businesses are being asked to write letters of support and send them to Michelle Watson, chair of the Humber UTC advisory group and deputy director of the Knowledge Exchange, based in the Enterprise Centre at the University of Hull.
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