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As UK reindustrialisation and infrastructure projects are building at pace, the challenge of workforce capacity will be met by combining automation with high-quality vocational training. The next generation of operators, technicians and engineers are gaining increasing access to advanced facilities and courses, learning to work with the latest welding technologies.
The Weldability Sif
Foundation is a UK-registered charity, formed in 2012, with the specific objective of facilitating an increase in the provision of vocational
welder training at FE colleges, UTCs, universities, schools and academies across the UK and Ireland – in order to help meet the skills gap in the welding sector.
EEF Students getting to grips with stick welding using the VirtUweld VR simulator.
Above right: Simulation trains the dexterity required to keep a constant arc length with a ‘melting’ electrode.
To achieve this objective, the Foundation makes a series of grant payments to institutions each year, by way of matched- funding against capital equipment purchases and
ongoing curriculum delivery costs. Centres operating ‘welding studios’ which deliver vocational welder training courses meeting the required criteria, are able to submit applications for grants annually over a five year programme. Since its inception, The Foundation has supported over 35 institutions in commencing – or expanding – their provision for welder training. These ‘welding studios’ have subsequently delivered over 14,000 welding qualifications to-date, from the suite of EAL (SEMTA) Awards, Certificates or Diplomas developed in partnership with The Weldability Sif Foundation. Education is vital to the future of UK manufacturing, and Weldability Sif, have been diligently working to increase the number of welder training
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