Projects

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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.

Read more here and find out how to get involved.

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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Sector Qualifications Strategy

The Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS) aims to ensure vocational qualifications and learning programmes are equipping people with the right skills that employers want.

The SQS reviews existing qualifications and identifies necessary changes, including ditching qualifications that are not fit for purpose and developing new ones that are.

Our new plan for reviewing workplace qualifications is now available. To download the PDF file click here.

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