At the beginning of the year we gave our gas training courses a huge revamp to give our students more skills. This was a plan to help our students leave our centre ready for work as they begin on their portfolio. Overall, we have noticed that our gas students are leaving much more industry knowledge. […]
Able Skills had a visit from BPEC this week, Paul Johnson, Chief Executive. Paul was visiting the South for meetings and decided to take the opportunity to pop in to meet us all, take a look at our facilities and to discuss the support that we receive from BPEC. We had a lovely chat over […]
Able Skills are proudly a BPEC Approved Centre Our gas training courses here at Able Skills are up there with our most popular course on offer. We have students come from all areas to train as a Gas Safe Engineer. All the gas qualifications on offer here at Able Skills are BPEC qualifications and we […]
We have a fantastic team of instructors here at Able Skills in all the trades. With the majority being here for a long period of time. Ian has been here at Able Skills for over 10 years now in our Gas and Plumbing department. He has successfully been teaching plumbing courses and gas courses. Ian […]
Have you ever wondered how a gas training provider decides on the content of the gas course that they are planning to deliver? In some instances, gas course content can be based on an instructors knowledge of the industry and from there, course content will be devised to meet such requirements however when it comes […]
When your a qualified Plumber, getting new skills in the Gas Industry is the next step. Here is our new Gas Safety group doing exactly that. This week has been the start of a new gas safety training course. Experienced Gas and Plumbing tutor, Richard is taking this new gas safety group as they begin […]
After introducing a Boiler Fault Finding Course, we have seen a massive demand already. During the week has been the beginning of our first Boiler Fault Finding and it has gone extremely well. With students coming from all over they have had the pleasure of being our first fault finding students. With this course being […]
Our Gas Courses are on the up and we have added a Fault Finding course for qualified Gas Engineers. We have now added a new fault finding course alongside our gas programmes. This comes with our revamped gas training programme and is available after the five-week managed learning programme. Once our students have finished their […]
Training towards a new career is very exciting and expanding your training from plumbing to gas is a fantastic upgrade. When training to become a Plumber a lot of people will look to further their training and increase their skills. This is exactly the case for plumbing students here at Able Skills. Many of our […]
Making sure you get the right training when you are looking to become a Gas Safe Engineer is vitally important. Some training centres in the UK will be more worried about your money than they will be about giving the correct and safe training. Getting the wrong training and not being fully qualified can be […]
There is a growing concern about the increase of unsafe gas work being carried out across the UK by newly qualified gas engineer. Research carried out by the Gas Industry Safety Group (GISG) and the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM) has shown an alarming number of poor training provided to gas engineer students […]
Thousands of homes across the UK have unsafe gas appliances and it is putting their homes and health at risk! It has been reported that thousands of homes across the UK have at least one unsafe gas appliance. This is extremely worrying and lots of people’s lives are being put a risk due to this. […]
