What We Do
WE ARE UNDERTAKING A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES TO ENSURE EDUCATORS AND INDUSTRY ARE ALIGNED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF GREEN AND DIGITAL SKILLS TRAINING.
GREEN SKILLS LABS
Central to the project is the development of cutting-edge green labs. These are located at colleges and adult education centres across the Local London region, with at least one specialist centre in each of the nine boroughs.
The labs provide access to pioneering training facilities and are kitted out with the latest technologies to prepare learners for green jobs, including retrofitting and insulation technologies, ground source heat pumps, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and electric vehicle charging insulation.
Our skills training facilities also include London’s first fully-funded windfarm operations training centre, located in Enfield.
You can find out what facilities are available near you by clicking on our borough map.
MICROCREDENTIALS
We consulted closely with employers to design new courses and qualifications that make up-skilling and re-skilling accessible for more people. We developed 50 ‘mini courses’ – known as microcredentials – in green and digital skills, based around the skills employers told us they needed.
These courses are externally accredited and range from 10 to 120 hours of learning. You can find out more about why we developed them here.
DIGITAL SKILLS LABS
We have invested £1.5m to install a new digital network which will connect up to 30 training sites across the London boroughs.
This will enable specialist teaching at one site to be broadcast across the whole network, meaning thousands more students will be able to access specialist teaching and learning from a location that is convenient for them. This digital network should be up and running by September 2024. Once live, it will make the London college group one of the biggest collaborative networks of further education providers in the country, and significantly broadens access to learning for Londoners.
We are also working towards being able to deliver assessments through our digital network, via augmented reality headsets.
DIGITAL TRAINING FOR TEACHING STAFF
The Local Skills Improvement Fund enabled considerable digital training to take place for staff at London South East Colleges and other colleges across the Local London partnership. This supported considerable upskilling across the network, helping staff to develop their competencies and embrace new digital technologies. This ensures that their own digital skills are of a high enough standard to successfully deliver skills training to students.
