2020 / 2021 Edition
Education & Training
A fully accredited CPCS training school has opened at Liebherr’s headquarters in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.
Three graduates who joined CEMEX UK will be living out of their suitcases for most of this year, as they travel around the country to get to know the ins and outs of the quarrying industry.
JCB have shown a strong commitment to helping to get young people to pursue careers in the engineering and manufacturing professions.
This year’s Access Summit, organized by the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF), focused on the theme of management responsibility for MEWPs (mobile elevated work platforms).
The Maudslay Initiative, a project led by the Occupational Standards Council for Engineering (OSCEng), could transform the way in which engineering and manufacturing industries train, develop and...
THE UK’s £6 billion quarrying and road-surfacing industry, which provides employment for around 60,000 people, is this week launching its first-ever recognized higher-education programmes at the...
JCB have unveiled plans for their new £20 million Academy, which will give young people across Staffordshire and Derbyshire the opportunity to pursue careers in engineering and manufacturing.
AS part of a package of support for the new Diploma in Quarry Technology to be offered by the University of Derby from September 2007, The Institute of Quarrying will be transferring Mike Smith...
THE search is on for the country’s most outstanding apprentices in the process and manufacturing sector following the launch of a new award scheme by Proskills, the Sector Skills Council for the...
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...