What will a skills academy do for me?

Because employers control the design and delivery of training, you get programmes and qualifications that are tailor-made for your industry.

That means employees with the right skills for your business, a wider selection of potential recruits and training programmes that are simple to use.

Skills academies use insight and experience from employers to develop training that is attractive for trainees and easy for businesses to implement.

A skills academy in your sector can provide:

  • Training in the skills your business needs
  • Higher-quality recruits and a better skilled workforce
  • First-class teaching in a modern learning environment
  • Centres of innovation and creativity, developing and reshaping training programmes to meet employers’ needs
  • Flexible methods of delivery, based on close relationships with employers of all sizes.
‘Our nation’s skills are not world class and we run the risk that this will undermine the UK’s long-term prosperity. Productivity continues to trail many of our main international comparators.’ Leitch Review of Skills, December 2006

Brandauer’s involvement with the National Skills Academy for Manufacturing has helped them to turn around their business from being £1.6 million in debt and experiencing an annual loss of £512,000 in 2002, to delivering a record £710,000 of profit five years later with a growth in sales of over 40%.

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