Students in Rugby benefit from Skills for Employment grant
A new logistics learning hub has recently opened at Rugby College, part of the Warwickshire College Group (WCG), thanks to a grant of £39,100 from Warwickshire County Council’s Skills for Employment programme.
The hub will help address a shortage of training provision for the logistics industry, one of the biggest employment sectors in Rugby, as it supports 23,700 jobs in Warwickshire.
Business Studies students who began their courses in September now have logistics as part of their course as a pilot project. In January, the first learners from small and medium-sized businesses in the sector will be enrolled onto industry-led level 2 & 3 Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) qualifications.
The hub will also provide a series of work experience opportunities as well as a brand new Logistics Office Simulation Facility.
Neil Coker, group vice-principal (curriculum) at WCG, said: "The aim is that the logistics hub provides students with an introduction to highly-rewarding jobs and careers in this sector that they had previously not considered. The sector needs well-trained, confident and well-educated young people and our students are the solution to future skills needs in transport management and logistics."
WCG is approved to deliver CILT Level 2 & 3 in Logistics & Transport. Interested parties can contact Charley Duxbury, Logistics Project Manager on: cduxbury@warwickshire.ac.uk or 07740419331 for more information.
Launch of consultation on T Levels
In a recent issue of Heads Up, we shared news of two national initiatives being launched to fund the introduction of T Levels (if you missed it you can read it here). T Levels will provide young people with a choice between technical and academic education post-16 and will be rolled out in September 2020, initially in the areas of Digital, Construction and Education and Childcare.
The government are now seeking views from education providers on how this funding will be distributed with a 3 month consultation launched on 27th November. The consultation sets out proposals for distributing funding to providers for the delivery of T levels from 2020 onwards, building on existing 16 to 19 funding arrangements.
An additional £500 million a year is being provided to meet the costs of additional teaching hours and industry placement requirements.
The consultation closes at 11.45pm on 19 February 2019.