Today we bring you a tremendous student story of how our weekend Electrical Courses helped Stuart Hayes work around his current job as a history teacher! Stuart has been teaching history for 3 years now but recently decided it isn’t what he wants to do in the long run. Having turned to our City & […]
We thought we would show you guys how our students on the City & Guilds Level 2 Plumbing Course are getting on! The above live video shows everyone what the students are up to as we see various work going on! Being the Level 2, students can expect to learn a whole new repertoire of skills in comparison […]
Good question! This week at Able Skills has seen several Electrical Courses all being taught at once! Each course is given its own centre and class room where practical and theoretical training take place by a designated industry expert instructor. With this week being like every other, it’s not just the one course we have […]
Students who enrolled onto the Level 2 Home Study Electrical Course are in this week as they undergo their practical training under industry expert instructor Brian. The above video was taken live and what you’ll see is side by side help as and when the students need it. The students are working on several things […]
Since July last year our centre in Dartford has been rammed with 18th Edition Courses. Every week we’ve been running one, if not, two courses a week with demand for this course extremely high. We are only two months into 2019, but we’ve already had over 100 students in our centre to get their 18th […]
Some Positive News? The construction industry is always in the limelight whether the country’s skills shortage is the topic of discussion or whether it’s the UK’s housing shortage. Whatever the reason, the construction industry continues to receive more attention as Arcadis’s head of market intelligence, Will Waller predicts a ‘Brexit Bounce’ as he states the […]
Having a CSCS Card is vitally important for any worker when looking to get work on a building site. Without the correct card you will not be able to get work on-site in your chosen trade. The Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) has decided to launch an online service to make the card application process […]
What we show you on the live videos of our Electrical Courses doesn’t even scratch the surface compared to what really goes on in our electrical centres! Regardless of what you see, just know that it’s impossible to show the true progression of our students in such a short amount of time in camera. Students […]
Did you see it? Back in November we helped spread the word of Gas Safe’s new ‘Don’t Cut Corners Campaign’. The campaign’s goal was to raise awareness of the dangers gas poses to the public and has been shown on tv channels such as ITV2, ITV3, More4 and lifestyle focused channels such as discovery channels, […]
The first thing you’ll see in the above video taken live is our students carrying out work they can expect in the real world. This is massively important for anyone looking for the right Gas Courses which allow them to eventually become a Gas Safe Registered Engineer. Watch the video all the way to the […]
New Careers always sound great but making them happen isn’t always great. The thought of starting something new is a great start but actually getting started is the hard bit and when training you will need to find a way of doing it. Fitting it around your normal lifestyle might not be so easy. If […]
Another week, another busy Able Skills. We are once again looking forward to a busy week here at our centre in Dartford, especially in our plastering centre. Our courses are looking very busy with students on a range of courses with us this week. From City & Guilds Courses to short courses and NVQ Qualifications. […]