WHO WE ARE WORKING WITH . .

 

SECTOR SKILLS COUNCILS:

 

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Asset Skills is the Sector Skills Council for the Property, Facilities Management, Housing and Cleaning industries and our main aim is to improve and develop skills in these sectors. By working closely with professional bodies, trade associations, employers and training providers we aim to help increase productivity and competitiveness across the industries as well as providing employees with the skills they need to develop themselves, whether it is within their current role or a change of career direction.
 

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People 1st is the Sector Skills Council for the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism industries, ensuring that the skills employers need are the skills they get. They aim to provide the environment which enables employers within the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism sector to have the right number of people with the right skills and qualifications at the right time. Thereby improving the profitability, retention and appeal of this dynamic sector, delivering world class productivity and customer service through its skilled people.

 

SkillSmart Retail , the Sector Skills Council for the Retail Sector, strive to be the authority for retail skills development and promotion, contributing to improved productivity.

Their key activities:

 • Influencing governments in promoting and addressing skills needs
• Developing and promoting skills and qualifications
• Making the business case for skills to employers
• Promoting retail as a career of choice

 Run by retailers for retailers, Skillsmart Retail operates under licence to the Department for Education and Skills and is part of the Skills for Business Network.

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Improve is the Sector Skills Council for Food and Drink Manufacturing and Processing across the UK and part of the Skills for Business Network, sponsored by the Department for Learning and Skills.

Improve was established July 2004 as the recognised authority on skill development in the UK Food and Drink Industry. Our vision is ‘to deliver more profit to employers through skills’. This is an ambitious aim and we already have an ambitious programme of activity in place to deliver the results.
      GoSkills, the Sector Skills Council for the passenger transport sector,  is an employer-led organisation that operates throughout the UK. They help employers and operators improve their business performance by developing staff skills and advising on issues such as funding opportunities, training providers and training tools.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CORPORATE:

 
        SkilSure® is the pre-eminent on-line solution for planning, mentoring and supporting development; tracking development progress against competence requirements; building and maintaining e-portfolios to support accomplishment; and allowing controlled access to review, appraise and comment on evidence of accomplishment.

SkilSure® has been flexibly designed and is readily customizable. Users of SkilSure® solutions include Professional Institutions, Sector Skills Councils, Awarding Bodies, Training Providers, and Employers with competence-based employee and management development programs.
       The National Recognition Information Centre for the United Kingdom, the UK NARIC, is the national agency under contract to the UK Government Department for Education and Skills. As the only official source of information and advice on international education and training systems and overseas skills and qualifications, the UK NARIC serves to perform two key functions: To provide recognition service and comparability information of all international qualifications from 183 countries worldwide with those in the UK and to promote UK qualifications abroad through the promotion of recognition and acceptance of British awards

 

       5S Consulting Ltd. is one of the UK's largest specialist consultancies in the VET field. We work with governments and their agencies in the UK and internationally, with private corporations, employer federations, further & higher education institutions, and professional bodies. Where appropriate, we partner with other consultancies, research institutes and public bodies