Building Our Skills

A partnership between GQA, the awarding and qualifications writing body and IVS Training & Assessment has resulted in the formal upskilling of thirteen members of staff at Droylsden Glass. The employees have succeeded in achieving a Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Fenestration Installation. This GQA qualification is suited to those leading a team of [...]

Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has secured John Fredericks Plastics Ltd as a supporter. Mark Handley, Building Our Skills’ Partnerships Manager says: “The name John Fredericks is synonymous with innovation and a loyal customer base. The company’s enviable and long track record of success in the [...]

Employers in the fenestration who wish to hone the skills of their workforce in order to improve their business’s competitiveness face two challenges: carefully managing training budgets whilst also addressing staff time constraints. How to choose a partner organisation who can help them achieve their goal at the same time as ensuring these challenges [...]

Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice reports an excellent level of support for its two pilot bespoke industry careers festivals held last week. “We’re so grateful to everyone who backed this new initiative,” says Mark Handley, Building Our Skills’ Partnerships Manager. He adds: “In the end, we [...]

GQA is supporting Fire Door Maintenance (FDM) in their efforts to raise safety standards across the industry. The awarding and qualifications writing body is developing accredited training and qualifications covering fire door installation, maintenance and inspection in partnership with FDM, which is owned by UAP Ltd, a leading door & window hardware supplier. This [...]

Building Our Skills is making an appeal – please get involved. Building Our Skills – Making Fenestration a Career of Choice is in the final stages of its planning for two industry bespoke careers fairs at the start of March as a part of National Careers Week. The two events will feature over 30 [...]

GQA Qualifications and its approved centre, Absolute Training Solutions are together helping to give self-employed people the opportunity to build up sector-specific knowledge, learn new skills and further enhance their job opportunities within the green energy sector. The work is part of a series of so-called ‘Skills Bootcamps’, which are affiliated to the Government’s [...]

Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice says that ‘employability skills clinics’ are to feature at the first of its series of bespoke industry careers fairs in March. “The employability skills clinics should play a major part in attracting schools and students to the fairs,” says Mark Handley, [...]

Fenestration, Glass and Glazing – 50 Careers in one day Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice says student registrations for the first of its series of bespoke industry careers fairs in March has now exceeded 500. “This is brilliant news,” says Mark Handley, Building Our Skills’ Partnerships [...]

Fenestration, Glass and Glazing – 50 Careers in one day Having announced its intention to launch a series of bespoke industry careers fairs in 2024, Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has now formally launched its ‘Career Families’ to help students understand the many career options open [...]

Having announced its intention to launch a series of bespoke industry careers fairs in 2024, Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has garnered backing from an impressive array of industry supporters. Launch partners for the initiative include many key industry names including Rehau, Schuco, GGF, Bohle, FIT [...]

Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has commenced consultation with its Advisory Panel and a wider group of supporters to discuss the potential of launching a series of bespoke industry careers fairs in 2024. The aim of these fairs would be to engage directly with the education [...]

Sponsored news from Building Our Skills: Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has always sought to promote the breadth of career opportunities offered by the industry. The organisation strongly backs apprenticeships as a great starting point for those joining the industry and an employee at Kubu, the [...]

Sponsored news from Building Our Skills: Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has appointed an advisory panel to offer advice and guidance as it continues to work on a wide range of initiatives to help bridge the skills gap, and to attract new talent to the industry. [...]

Sponsored news from Building Our Skills: Addressing the industry’s skills gap has always been one of the core objectives of Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice. The campaign acknowledges the role of apprenticeships in helping to realise this objective, and a partnership forged with Glass & Fenestration [...]