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Electrical apprentices and trainees in Scotland reach highest figure for 12 years
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he number of electrical apprentices and adult trainees beginning their studies has reached a 12-year high in
Scotland, with more than 800 new learners enrolling on the Electrical Apprenticeship and Adult Trainee Programmes for 2021, with colleges and training centres reporting full classrooms as future professionals take their first steps on the electrical ladder. Barrie McKay, training and development manager at SECTT, which
manages high-quality training on behalf of the Scottish Joint Industry Board (SJIB), said: “I’ve been at SECTT for more than 20 years and it’s really encouraging to see a return to such high numbers. The industry has been concerned for some time about skills shortages as the demand for qualified electricians accelerates, and the enthusiasm and dedication of these new recruits goes a long way to easing these fears and suggesting that there is an appetite to learn among the electrical talent of tomorrow.” SECTT and the SJIB praised employers for taking on apprentices,
confounding fears that recruitment could be a casualty of the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
BEAMA publishes milestone report on energy efficiency in UK homes
and series of white papers outlining the urgent action needed to address energy efficiency in UK Homes as our first step toward Net Zero by 2050. As we wait for the UK Net Zero and
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Heat and Building’s strategy never has the urgency to address decarbonisation in UK homes been felt more strongly. Time is not on our side. As the future energy infrastructure emerges our
homes must be ready to connect to it. We have less than 30 years to make UK homes fit for the future. We must prepare 29 million existing homes and millions of new build properties to use energy in a different way. This significant report sets out the scale of the task ahead, and calls for
Government and industry to urgently agree a detailed roadmap and delivery plan as part of a national retrofit program. It is hoped the expected Heat and Buildings strategy will go some way in achieving that. This report brings into focus the issues currently facing domestic building efficiency, and existing regulatory compliance.
To view the Net Zero by Design report and series of white papers, visit
https://www.beama.org.uk/resource-library/net-zero-by-design-our-vision-of-a-zero- carbon-home-and-how-we-get-there.html
n 14 October, BEAMA published a milestone report
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