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Not every day we have student that strives for qualifications as much as Andrew Fleming. Starting his journey with us earlier in 2018, Andrew has worked extremely hard to achieve his current qualifications and is still working for more with our electrical courses. This is his story on how he got started. A few months […]
How Able Skills Electrical Courses Help You Secure Real Jobs! Able Skills Electrical Courses are known for providing Electrician Training that mimics real life work on site. Through a thoroughly thought out training program, we designed our Electrical Courses with you guys in mind to ensure you all leave with increased employability, widened opportunities […]
Yet again we have a very busy week here at Able Skills and especially up in our Carpentry, where we have lots of students working through and starting qualifications. Students from all backgrounds are here on our carpentry courses to get the skills and qualifications they need to kickstart their new careers. We offer such […]
The City & Guilds Level 2 Plumbing Course That Started This Week This week marks the start of yet another one of our Plumbing Courses as the City & Guilds Level 2 Plumbing Course welcomes new students. If Plumbing is something you’ve been interested in then this particular course can be completed over a […]
Lots of new starters in our Plastering centre this week, with lots completing our DIY Plastering courses as they look to complete personal projects and add to their current skills. Our DIY Plastering courses are the perfect introduction in the industry and can be built on with qualifications and NVQs. Our short plastering course is […]
Able Skills Electrician Training thoroughly prepares students for the real world with our in depth course material and City & Guilds accreditation. The above video shows students on the Level 2 Electrical Course (one of the many Electrician Courses we offer) which started just this week! Each student has the ability to progress at their […]
Quality Plumber Week Coming This Fall! The Association of Plumbing & Heating Contractors have organised a ‘Quality Plumber Week’ (QPW) for this October 1st to the 7th. This years hot topic of whether or not to License the industry will be given huge awareness during such week as discussions will be well under way. […]
The construction skills shortage has been affecting construction work up and down the UK over the past few years. More work than ever before is being planned and completed, with a huge percentage being housing to ease the current housing crisis. However, workers are in high demand and sites are short on numbers as the […]
The Home Study Electrical Course That Saw Former Bus Driver Find New Work Did you know you can train part time and still secure full time work? Many are under the illusion that this isn’t possible, but this couldn’t be any further from the truth as we’ve seen former student Phil Hickey secure work […]
2018 has gone by in a flash and we can’t believe we are coming towards the end of August already. Here at Able Skills we have been extremely across our centre on all courses, especially up in our carpentry centre. So busy in fact, that we are fully booked for the rest of the year […]
Catching up with the Gas Engineers of the future! Making sure our students get the results they’re after is up upmost importance to a teaching facility such as ourselves. Today we thought it would be a good idea to catch up with the lovely bunch of students undergoing their Gas Training on the Qualified Plumber […]
Is Licensing the way forward for Qualified Plumbers? There’s a new hot topic that’s circulating the Plumbing Industry lately. Industry leaders are now discussing the potential benefits of introducing a licensing system that aims to recognise Qualified Plumbers the same way the Gas Safe Register recognises qualified Gas Engineers. As it stands there are no […]
