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According to The 2020 Group – a new group of leading housing organisations, unions and local authorities – investing billions to build 100,000 new homes over the next two years will give a desperately needed boost to the economy, save thousands of construction jobs, avoid serious skills shortages and help stimulate long term market stability. […]
In recent years, career switching has never been more easier! There are is literally a course for every subject you can think of and when it comes to a professional trade skill such as plumbing, you can just about choose any which way you like to find out if it’s what you really want to […]
CORGI is the national watchdog for gas safety in the United Kingdom. Their goal is to make people safer when they use trades people. They strive to improve standards in the industry and help you find and use safe and competent trades people. This means a Training centre for Gas Installations must meet rigorous standards […]
Or put it the other way around … when an instructor takes a real interest in making sure you are taking in everything he is saying or showing you, it really helps to boost confidence in your own abilities and you will definitely feel you are getting somewhere! The biggest obstacle to taking a training […]
It can be a minefield out there – you have made up your mind, you are ready to make the career change and get into the construction industry say, as an electrical installer, plumber, plasterer or kitchen fitter – but how do you choose the right course for you? Will you learn everything that is […]
Now here’s the thing – when you really do need to get a close look at what’s being shown, and you may have to ask to see an action repeated just to make sure, then the next best thing to being in the workshop with an instructor is having a DVD. Check the training instructions […]
Able Skills has expanded again based on the success of our current Plumbing programmes and is set to open a new Plumbing Training Centre by the summer of 2009. The new Plumbing Centre will be better equipped to prepare modern day Plumbers for the industry with entirely new equipment in place, spacious training and assessment […]
You may already know about the the AbleSkills Level 2 Technical Certificate in Distance Learning for Plumbing Theory. It is a great way to learn because it gives you the freedom to study and learn the basic theory at your own time and pace. However, we hear you say, finding the space and the time […]
All our tiling courses are now available at weekends, enabling us to deliver every programme that we offer 7 days a week. Now that we deliver our courses at weekends it enables those with work commitments to come and train. We have also refurbished our kitchen and bathroom areas giving them a fresh look. Able […]
Able skills now offer all of our short painting & decorating courses and wallpapering courses over weekends. We have a new painting & decorating instructor, Martin. Martin has achieved all his teaching qualifications and has been working within the industry for many years, because of martins qualifications it enables us to deliver all of our […]
