Cross-sector skills are the focus of many employers needs, focusing on management & leadership, IT user skills, Skills for Life (covering basic numeracy and literacy), and employability.

• Lead agency on Skills for Life
  
• Embedding National Occupational Standards into Management & Leadership
  
• Developed Sustainability Skills Matrix for the Built Environment
  
• New Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment

The management & leadership sector has seen considerable upheaval throughout the past year. The challenges of turning technically skilled workers into front line supervisors, refreshing middle management and developing truly inspirational leaders remain key issues more....

Management & Leadership in Wales
This project identifies the key Management and Leadership issues across the Asset Skills sector in Wales - encompassing the Property, Housing, Cleaning and Facilities Management industries – and establishes a clear strategy and two-phase action plan to improve Management and Leadership performance more....

Passport for the cleaning industry
The skills passport scheme for the UK cleaning industry is introduced at the British Cleaning Industry Conference in Solihull on 22nd September 2005. The Pathway Card will allow those employed in the industry to record their skills, qualifications and experience onto an electronic card, and employers to view this information online to verify competence and fitness for work. Click here, for full details. To see the Pathway Card in action, please see www.pathwaycard.co.uk