2022 / 2023 Edition
Education & Training
AT the end of 2006 Ken Riley stepped down as chairman of EPIC Training and E2 Holdings (parent company of EPIC and EMP Awarding Body), a role he had undertaken for the last five years as an...
EPIC Training and Consulting Services Ltd have released details of their public courses for the first half of 2007. The courses/dates announced are:
The Safe and Fuel Efficient Drivers (SAFED) aggregates programme, which aims to help drivers improve their safety and fuel-efficient driving techniques, has completed the training of its 1,000th...
Philip Brain Associates have recently been accredited by EMP Awarding Body to provide Drilling Operations Level 2 and Shotfiring Level 3 NVQs, which also contain units for the Blast Design and...
EMP Awarding Body Ltd, the awarding body specifically set up by the extractive and mineral processing industries, is now offering a range of new National and Scottish Vocational Qualifications (N/...
Sector Skills Council Proskills has embarked on a UK-wide consultation with employers that will shape the future of skills provision and funding for the extractive and mineral processing industry...
CRT Plant Engineers Ltd have become one of the latest companies to join a leading-edge scheme designed to help industry improve its safety record.
As from September 2009 a new 14–19 qualification will be made available, which will change the way vocational skills are developed for young people.
In recognition of the need for trainee construction plant operators to benefit from using the latest mobile plant, New Holland Construction, together with their Lincolnshire dealer, Platts Harris...
THE Quarry Products Association’s flagship educational web site, the Virtual Quarry (www.virtualquarry.co.uk), has won a major prize in the 2006...
A team of eight quarry managers from one of Scotland’s leading construction companies has successfully completed a new training initiative.
JCB have announced plans to fund a new academy school in East Staffordshire to help young people pursue a career in engineering and manufacturing.
THE quarrying industry took a major technological step forward last month with the launch of a new interactive online education resource aimed at schools.
CHINA clay producers Imerys have agreed a £1 million deal with Cornwall College for a five-year programme that will see about 800 operational staff and 150 managers assessed and accredited to...
PROSKILLS has been awarded its licence to become the new Sector Skills Council for the process and manufacturing sector.