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We're Expanding!

Three new socially-distanced starters join our Business Development Team today - please welcome Claire, Jack and Matéo!

If you are looking to join a progressive, innovative, fast-moving company then get in touch with us – we will be recruiting again in January!

It's Time! Our Training Centres Re-Open

Our Training Centres will reopen for exam delivery with effect from the 1st July with a limited schedule of in-centre training courses starting from Monday 6th July.

We look forward to welcoming you all back and we want you to know that we’ve been busy behind the scenes changing our systems and procedures to ensure a safe training environment for all.

Following a detailed COVID-19 Risk Assessment, we have reconfigured our  Training Centre and put in place new protocols to ensure the safety of our exam candidates, our students and our staff, while ensuring the quality of training and support you have come to expect from us.

Prior to re-opening, the  Training Centre was subject to a deep clean using antiseptic, antibacterial cleaning products. This process was carried out over the course of a week and involved every part of the Training centre including shared entrance areas.

The classrooms and delegate rest areas have been reconfigured to enable effective Social Distancing. This has involved not only reducing classroom sizes considerably but also capping the total number of people coming into the Training Centre at any one time – down by two-thirds.

We have put hand sanitiser stations at key points in the Centre including at the front entrance to the building, at reception and in the delegates rest area. On-going antibacterial cleaning will be carried out during the day with particular focus on high-touch areas.

We have installed safety and information signage throughout the Centre.

If requested, face masks and gloves are available - but currently this is not mandatory.

We hope you are as excited as we are about being back but if you have any queries regarding coming in to the Centre, please contact our Training Support Team at trainingsupport@skilltec.co.uk

Re-Opening for Classroom-based Training Soon - 5th June 2020

As some of the Covid-19 restrictions begin to lift, we are working behind the scenes to ensure that we can re-open our training centres for classroom-based training soon.

Our priority is always to ensure the safety of Skilltec Training students and staff and we are currently testing our safety protocols to ensure that all our students receive a high quality learning experience in a safe environment.

We hope to make a further announcement on this shortly

ITIL® V4 Managing Professional Transition

All ready for the next week’s  Managing Professional Transition course for our first cohort of certified ITIL Expert’s. Only a few at this level in the South West!

ITIL Version 4 is coming!

The next generation of ITIL, the most globally recognised Service Management framework, is scheduled for release by AXELOS in Q1 2019.

More details will follow as soon as release dates are confirmed.  ITIL v4 Foundation will be available as a public scheduled course in Plymouth as soon as it becomes available. We are currently holding a wait list for delegates that wish to be first-to-market with these new skills, if you would like to be included for the first courses please contact David Bogart on 01752 227330.

Office 365 Migration Training

The Client was looking for a training provider to support their move from a desktop-based legacy installation of MS Office 2007 to a new collaborative cloud-based Office 365 environment. The migration was to potentially touch up to 2500 users across 6 geographical locations. They had identified user training as a fundamental and key element for the overall success of the deployment and, as such, Skilltec worked with them to:

  • Excite and enthuse their workers to the powerful new opportunities available within a collaborative cloud-based environment.
  • Introduce and motivate users to the new features and capabilities available within the Office 365 toolset.
  • Provide users with a structured understanding of the Client way of working with this new technology highlighting Client protocols and embedding best practise. 

Working in coordination with their L&D team as well as the migration project managers, Skilltec designed, wrote and delivered a range of specific courses uniquely geared to the their requirements that embedded their policies, procedures and protocols within the training delivery.

The shift to Office 365 is culturally different and managing this change to a better way of working through effective training was an important key to the success and uptake of this major new deployment.

The curriculum designed and delivered for this migration project included:

  • Office 365 – An Introduction to WebApps
  • Groups & Site Owner
  • SharePoint 2016
  • Microsoft Flow
  • Power BI
  • MS Office OneNote 2016

SkillTec New Combined Training Schedules Released

Our new course schedule for Spring 2018 has now been released and is available for download here.  This schedule now includes public-scheduled dates in Exeter for the first time allowing us to offer courses across 3 centres in the South West – Plymouth, Exeter & Bristol.

Don’t forget that we can always come to you! We do a lot of onsite training for clients throughout the region, course dates can be set up to fit your diary and courses can be tailored to precisely meet your needs.  There is also a mobile classroom that we can bring with us if you don’t have access your own computer suite.

Mobile Training Suite Now Available

Our mobile Training Suite is available for hire at just £100 p/day! If you want us to train with you onsite and bring all of the equipment with us, this is the solution for you. All you need is an appropriate room and we’ll bring the rest. For more information please call Louise on 01752 222140.

Enhanced Learning Credits

We had a query come through to us recently asking us about MoD Resettlement training so I thought I would take the opportunity to advise on Enhanced Learning Credits from the MoD.

Skilltec Ltd is a preferred supplier to the MoD for ELC (Enhanced Learning Credits) and our Provider Number is 3047.  We are also an approved provider for CTP (Career Transition Partnership).  This means that we are able to provide training to service personnel qualifying for the ELC or CTP scheme.  ELC allows for up to £2,000 a year for 3 years of training on approved courses and you have the option of taking the training during your service period or after you have resettled.

Another advantage of training with us is that we also offer free advice to service leavers regarding job interview and CV's so that you are fully prepared for the next stage in your career.  Not all of our courses are approved for ELC funding so if you have an interest in training using ELC, the best thing would be to contact me directly so that we can discuss the options open to you in more detail.

I can be contacted on 01752 269122 or reached by email at charlie@skilltec.co.uk

Corporate Skills Licence

Taking out one of our Corporate Skills Licences can see an annual training budget stretch further. Here are just some of the reasons why this product has proved so popular with Training Managers this year:

Budgeting

The Corporate Skills Licence helps Training Managers to even out the training spend by spreading a training budget across two financial years.  Purchasing a Corporate Skills Licence with the residual training budget at the end of a financial year allows it to be used over the following 12 months.

Simplicity

With only the one PO and invoice raised initially at inception, Corporate Skills Licences simplify the booking process.  Courses simply get redeemed against the licence throughout the year upon the clients instruction.

Flexibility

The Skills Licence can be used for training any employee of an organisation from any department on any training course over a 12-month period and this includes on-site, closed, public scheduled or self-paced, and in any area of the curriculum from IT, Administration, Secretarial, Accounts and through to Management.

Discounted Prices

Offering discounts to RRP, our Skills Licence is designed to fit in with each clients individual and unique needs and can be purchased for any amount - there is no minimum and no maximum limit.

For more information, please contact me on 01752 227330 or send me an email at david.bogart@skilltec.co.uk