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23rd July 2015
IMI wins 'Appeal of Appeals'
Important invitation: Light Vehicle Trailblazer
Skillsfirst qualifications approved for public
funding 2015/16
Light Vehicle Accredited Assessor ReAccreditation Workshop
Raising the leaving age and Apprentice
Enrolment survey
Consultation on the draft Fluorinated
Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2015 Northern Ireland (only)
Sally says - Equal pay
ePortfolio development work
IMI wins 'Appeal of Appeals'
IMI’s ‘appeal of appeals’ for 19+ funding for the following 3 qualifications
has been approved by the Skills Funding Agency (SfA).
• 600/2583/9 IMIAL Level 1 Diploma in Automotive
Body Repair (QCF)
• 600/2584/0 IMIAL Level 1 Diploma in Automotive
Refinishing (QCF)
• 600/2806/3 IMIAL Level 1 Diploma in Light Vehicle
Maintenance (QCF
Therefore these 3 qualifications can be added to the list of 21
qualifications that currently attract funding for 19+ learners.
More information
Important invitation: Light Vehicle
Trailblazer
Find out more about the new Motor Vehicle Service and Maintenance
Technician (Light Vehicle) Apprenticeship and assessment strategy
(based on the new Apprenticeship ‘Trailblazer’ requirements) which was
developed by The Automotive Retail Trailblazer group led by Jaguar
Land Rover.
The workshop will be held on Tuesday 28 July 2015 at GTG Training
in Wolverhampton and will be structured to update employers during
the morning and training providers in the afternoon. Please register your
interest to attend by emailing Kelly Riordan stating your preferred slot
(AM or PM) - limited places available.
Full details
Skillsfirst qualifications approved
for public funding 2015/16
We are pleased to report that an increasing number of Skillsfirst
qualifications have been approved for public funding by the SFA for
2015/16. Amongst those include:
­ Functional Skills in English – Levels 1 and 2
­ Functional Skills in Mathematics – Levels 1 and 2
Functional Skills in Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) – Levels 1 and 2
SFA will be updating the HUB within the next few weeks.
View the website
Light Vehicle Accredited Assessor
Re-Accreditation Workshop
The next Light Vehicle Accredited Assessor Re-Accreditation
Workshop will be held at Fanshaws on Thursday 17th September.
To book your place please complete the booking form, and return to us.
The cost for the workshop will be £320+vat+£55 registration fee per
person.
If you have any queries, or require further information please email
Nicola Martin, or call 01992 511521.
More details
Raising the leaving age and
Apprentice Enrolment survey
Before you leave for your summer break tell us what effect raising the
education participation age to 18 in England will have on apprentice
recruitment.
Some IMI Centres are telling us they've seen an increase in the number
of automotive technical apprenticeships in the last year, but believe the
post 16 reform will have a negative impact on the number of apprentices
in future.
We need facts before we act, so please help us and answer this short
survey. All responses will be anonymous
Survey
Consultation on the draft
Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases
Regulations 2015 - Northern Ireland
(only)
Following on from earlier correspondence, the Department of the
Environment has issued a consultation document, concerning the draft
Regulations above. The consultation began on 6th July 2015 and will
finish on 31st August 2015. Please note that these Regulations apply
to Northern Ireland only.
Feel free to submit any comments that you may have, using the
contact details below. Please also feel free to further distribute the
consultation document to anyone else who may have an interest.
The draft Regulations and the consultation document can also be
downloaded from this web-page.
Further information
Sally says - Equal pay
The Government has announced a consultation on the terms of equal
pay from the Equality Act 2010.
The aim, according to the Prime Minister, is to force all firms with more
than 250 staff to publish the average pay of men and women they
employ within twelve months. Inevitably, this requirement will be applied
to smaller companies thereafter.
The published figures show that women earn 80p for every pound paid
to the average man.
The legislation was introduced after a strike by sewing machinists from
Ford, who claimed a 15% pay rise to give them parity with male
production workers. Since then the pay gap generally has been slow to
close.
Full article
ePortfolio development work
To further enhance the IMI ePortfolio platform for our centre network, a
number of planned developments are to be completed over the coming
months.
More information
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