Building Our Skills – Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has commenced consultation with its Advisory Panel and a wider group of supporters to discuss the potential of launching a series of bespoke industry careers fairs in 2024. The aim of these fairs would be to engage directly with the education [...]
GQA Qualifications has teamed up with some of the construction industry’s heavy hitters to produce a podcast tackling the subject of competence in the supply chain. Called ‘Raising the Bar’, the podcast is the first of a planned series by the awarding and qualifications-writing organisation which aims to debate some of the key issues [...]
Close collaboration with Bohle, the components manufacturer and supplier, showcases the benefits of GQA's 'Accredited Training' service, and is helping the company to raise standards in UV bonded glass technologies and practices. GQA is the fenestration industry's leading awarding and qualifications-writing organisation. Its Accredited Training service is aimed at employers in the industry who [...]
Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has always sought to promote the breadth of career opportunities offered by the industry. The organisation strongly backs apprenticeships as a great starting point for those joining the industry and an employee at Kubu, the smart security specialist, is demonstrating exactly [...]
Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has appointed an advisory panel to offer advice and guidance as it continues to work on a wide range of initiatives to help bridge the skills gap, and to attract new talent to the industry. Made up of representatives from businesses [...]
GQA Qualifications has identified a new style of fake CSCS card that is currently in circulation, and site managers are urged to be extra vigilant when granting access to construction sites. Fake cards are not a new phenomenon, and the vigilance of construction site management teams can prevent unqualified workers from gaining access to [...]
GQA Qualifications, the fenestration industry's leading awarding and qualifications-writing organisation has appointed Dan Brown as Strategic Relationships Manager. The role is a new one, created to help facilitate GQA’s strategic aims and its 5-year business plan. One of GQA’s key goals is to create and strengthen collaborative relationships with relevant external bodies, trade associations [...]
Building Our Skills – Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has received further support for its campaign to take the industry to the education sector as the starting point for creating a workforce of tomorrow. John Agnew, Group Managing Director of the GGF has committed the support of the organisation to [...]
Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has received another boost to its campaign to take the industry to the education sector as the starting point for creating a workforce for tomorrow. Six team members from systems company Liniar have enrolled to be a part of the ‘Inspiring [...]
Collaboration currently underway with a new trade association is demonstrating the practicality of GQA Qualifications Bespoke Qualification Service'. GQA Qualifications Bespoke Qualification Service is aimed at employers who wish to be able to offer those staff undertaking very specific roles the opportunity to work towards gaining a qualification where one does not already exist. [...]
