January 2008
Do you want to improve your business? Do you want to improve your skills? Would you like to get paid to help others improve theirs? Then a scheme called Train to Gain may be the answer, it aims to fund employees and employers through training, and help to combat barriers such as cost and time. It is a service designed to help businesses, like yours, get the training they need to succeed. It is also the key for our future individually, as competition increases, and the need to better our own skills becomes evident. One of the key goals of the service is to make sure that both the training and the skills advice are impartial, flexible, responsive, and offered at a time and place to suit businesses. This marks a cultural shift in how skills training will be delivered, and will ensure that the delivery of training is much more responsive to the needs of every business and individual. Here is a quick summery of what is available:
- Free training to help employees gain their first full Level 2 qualification and Skills for Life first numeracy and literacy qualification. This includes all training towards NVQ Level 2 or equivalent (equal to 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above), Skills for Life programmes, higher level skills and a wide range of other training for you or your staff.
- Wage compensation for companies with less than 50 employees.
- Funded programmes, including for Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships, NVQ Level 3 and above, such as higher education
If you are interested in learning more about how this scheme can help you and what the Retail Sector can offer in terms of support, or how you can become a learning champion helping to promote learning to others, and get paid in the process, please contact me on 07737772181 or by e-mail jclake@cornwall-learning-partnership.org
