Regional Resource Centre success in first three months
The Marine Regional Resource Centre (RRC), which was set up in January, has just completed its first quarter. It has achieved excellent results well above its original targets. ‘I am immensely pleased and proud of this achievement’ commented Kenneth Cast, the RRC Project Manager. ‘This initial success is down to the employers understanding the importance of up-skilling their staff, taking onboard the changes in modern manufacturing techniques and processes and fully embracing this opportunity via the RRC to enhance this productivity and competitiveness’.
The RRC’s aim is to assist marine employers to train, re-train and up-skill their staff in composite technologies, material management, manufacturing, metrology, and vessel design and company management. The flexibility of the RRC provides training tailored to meet the needs of individual companies. Employers committed to the RRC (enrolment is free) will provide progression options for their staff that have not been previously available to them prior to this initiative.
Higher levels of provision will be available with sustained continuity and coherence promoting progression. This in turn will also provide an incentive to both employer and employee to progress to higher levels of expertise, whether in further or higher education for marine composite engineering, manufacturing processes and techniques plus innovation and management courses to assist with the progression of both staff and companies alike.
The Regional Resource Centre was developed by SEEDA over the last 2 years, engaging with industry to address the labour and skills supply issues of priority sectors that require science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) skills. The RRC will address a number of key issues, including better use of scientific resources, expertise and equipment in the region, STEM skills issues, with a focus on technician skills and continued professional development (CPD) including management courses, greater clarity and wider dissemination of the potential career opportunities afforded by STEM subjects, business support responding to employers needs.
To find out more, please visit the RRC website at http://www.marinerrc.co.ukor call direct to 02380 439 298 or 02380 484 848 for further details.
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