Welding training centre launches to address skills gap
A new welding skills training initiative and centre has been set up to deliver training to meet demand and to overcome the current skills gaps in the UK welding industry.
The initiative – a partnership between Weldability-Sif, The Welding Institute, Cambridge and North Hertfordshire College's Stevenage Skills Centre – is intended to provide the skills necessary to meet imperatives like the coming energy boom; a project that alone will require some 20,000 trained welders.
Adrian Hawkins, MD at Weldability-Sif said that the qualifications awarding body EAL had created qualifications to support the activity. "The next step is to develop the apprenticeship frame work."
This new Stevenage centre was opened by John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning (pictured with 16 year-old student welders Cameron Wallace and Matthew George).
