Experience counts: Pass on your skills
The 'Pass on your Skills' project is funded by the Scottish Government under their 'Experience Counts' programme, which aims to revitalise and enhance the skills of more mature workers in Scotland. Managed by LLUK, the project is being run in partnership with Construction Skills, Summit Skills and Asset Skills.
As part of the project, a series of workshops across Scotland were offered to encourage experienced construction and building services workers to pass on their skills to new entrants to the profession and to consider a career working as a lecturer, tutor, technician, assessor or verifier in a college.
During October 2007 a recruitment campaign was launched to attract individuals to the workshops. This proved to be highly successful with places on the workshops filling rapidly. The workshops took place in the last two weeks of November 2007 in South Lanarkshire, Inverness, Reid Kerr and Clydebank Colleges, areas where demand is high for construction lecturers.
Feedback from the two-day workshops indicates that they encouraged a greater awareness of the working culture and conditions in Scotland's colleges and of the opportunities to become trainers in the wider work based learning.
Since completing the workshops a number of delegates have secured positions in the lifelong learning sector, while others are undergoing further training to enhance their skills in this area.
For further information about the 'Pass on your Skills' project, please contact Holly Milne, Project Manager, by email.
