Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has received a further boost to its campaign to take the industry to the education sector as the starting point for creating a workforce for tomorrow. Four members of the technical team from GQA Qualifications have enrolled to be a part [...]
GQA Qualifications, the awarding and qualifications-writing organisation is lending its support to a progressive and life-changing initiative for young people called 'Nobody Left Behind'. The scheme combines community sports programmes with construction-related training and qualifications to improve young people's employment prospects for entry-level construction industry roles. Nobody Left Behind works with groups of young [...]
Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has appointed Mark Handley as Partnerships Manager. Formerly Sales and Marketing Director at Consort Limited, Mark has over 30 years' experience in the fenestration industry in roles spanning fabrication, installation, technical support, sales and marketing. He will effectively 'be the face [...]
Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has launched its action plan for the next twelve months. The plan reflects its commitment to bridging the skills gap by working closely with employers and other organisations to attract new entrants to the industry. The plan also includes Building Our [...]
This year GQA Qualifications celebrates twenty years of trading. As part of the activities to mark the event is a series of interviews with the directors of the organisation. Here we talk to Justin Ratcliffe. What does being a Director of GQA mean to you? It's a huge honour to serve the organisation, and [...]
Underlining its commitment to bringing more youngsters into the fenestration industry, Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has strengthened its collaboration with the Education and Employers Charity to promote their 'Inspiring the Future' programme. Inspiring The Future has been designed to connect young people with the world [...]
The Inspiring The Future campaign of Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice is going from strength to strength. Among the latest organisations to support the initiative is Strata Windows, the Staffordshire domestic and commercial window and door installer. Underlining the goal it shares with Building Our Skills [...]
GQA's processes and documentation have been given the thumbs up by the Institute for Apprentices and Technical Education (IfATE). The fenestration industry's leading awarding and qualifications-writing organisation has undergone an end point assessment audit, carried out by Open Awards, the external quality assurance provider appointed by IfATE, which resulted in a positive report. Commenting [...]
GQA centre Absolute Training Solutions Ltd has contributed to the successful restoration of historic stained glass panels at Grade I listed Manchester Town Hall by supporting employees of Recclesia Stained Glass through NVQ attainment. Grade 1 listed buildings, which are incredibly rare in the UK are those deemed to be of exceptional national, architectural [...]
Below is an interview with GQA board member Anda Gregory who discusses her career and GQA future plans. This year GQA Qualifications celebrates twenty years of trading. As part of the activities to mark the event is a series of interviews with the directors of the organisation. Here we talk to Anda Gregory of [...]
