Built Environment Skills Alliance

Join the Built Environment Skills Alliance (BESA) Higher Education Strategy Virtual Sounding Board and have your say

A number of Sector Skills Councils, universities, Professional Institutions, employers and other interested parties are working together to help Higher Education to better serve the needs of everyone working in the built environment.

The Built Environment Skills Alliance (BESA) Higher Education Strategy Delivery Group would like to invite employers, and others, with an interest in higher level skills within the built environment to influence its priorities and activities by contributing to an online Virtual Sounding Board.

Promoting the Built Environment

The Built Environment Skills Alliance (BESA) comprises Asset Skills, the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB), Construction Skills, ProSkills, EU Skills, Summit Skills and the Construction Industry Council (CIC).

Earlier this year a BESA conference was held to promote skills across the board. Led by David Lammy MP, Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property Rights, the event aimed to forge a way forward for the sector's higher education offering.

Delegates heard that despite the recession, there will be a need for 1,150 new surveyors and 9,350 other professional services personnel between now and 2013 and that raising skills is a high priority.

Read the latest from BESA in a report available here.

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