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.