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.
NEW COURSES AND QUALIFICATIONS
We are consulting closely with employers to design new courses and qualifications that make up-skilling and re-skilling accessible for more people. We’re developing 50 “mini courses” – known as microcredentials – in green and digital skills, based around the skills employers have told us they need.
These courses are externally accredited and range from 10 to 120 hours of learning. You can find out more about why we’re developing them here.
EMPLOYER BOARD
We have developed an employer board to ensure that businesses in the Local London region can communicate their future skills needs to education providers and local authorities. This gives employers an opportunity to directly input into curriculum provision.
We are continuously looking to build this board. If you’re an employer and you are interested in participating, visit our employers page to find out how.
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
We’re investing in providing digital training for staff at our FE colleges, helping them 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. It also means they can make meaningful use of digital education tools, which can automate the administrative parts of teaching – allowing them to get on with the more impactful bits!
