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Sector: Business, Finance and Management

Overview

Business, Finance and Management training encompasses the cross-sector skills required by all organisations with management and business and financial operations. From IT to Sales, accounts to customer service, there is a qualification available. Business, Finance and Management NVQs and Apprenticeships are designed to ensure staff employ best practice in these critical areas of business operation. For eligible staff these qualifications come full or partially funded by the Government.

Most commonly undertaken qualifications this sector are: Business Administration, Customer Service, Accountins and Accounting, Team Leading, Management and Business Improvement Techniques. All of these qualifications are available as Apprenticeships.

   

 

Sector: Education

Overview

Teaching Assistants play an increasingly important role within the education sector. We offer NVQ qualifications for Teaching Assistants in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools. Gaining such a qualification demonstrates your ability in the role promotes best practice and helps with school inspection gradings. The qualification can also be a stepping stone to becoming a fully qualified teacher.
The level 2 and 3 qualifications are detailed below.

   

 

Sector: Heath, Public Services and Care

Overview

Health, Public Services and Care is the largest employment sector in the UK. But as an LSC regional priority sector, it faces a huge staff and skills shortage.

  • 11% staff shortage in the care sector.
  • Childhood Studies need to upskill workforce to gain greater recognition.
  • Healthcare will find it hard to meet its staff shortage.
  • Increase in the usage of ICT brings skills challenges.
  • Training programmes needed to cater for skills shortages.

We offer a wide range of courses tailored to suit your changing and individual requirements of the Health, Public Services and Care sector.

We provide effective on-site training. Our team of assessors work with employees to meet the demand for vocational training:

  • Tailor-made provision
  • A wide variety of Health & Safety courses
  • National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs)
  • Courses and training to meet regulatory requirements
  • Train to Gain funding for many NVQ programmes

Staff retention can be an issue in Health, Public Services & Care and training offers a solution as a strong motivating force.

Meeting the demand for health specific and generic skills, we provide wide a range of courses to meet your specifications including Health & Social Care, Care Support, Housekeeping, Catering, IT qualifications such as ITQs, Management and Leadership or Numeracy and Literacy. In addition the Public Services sector covers core occupations such as CCTV Operations, Security and Door Supervision where demand to qualify the workforce is growing but qualifications such as the Security Practitioner Award can teach and motivate the workforce.

 

   

 

Sector: Engineering & Manufacturing

Overview

The engineering, manufacturing and technology sector is facing a growing recruitment crisis and there is little confidence that the problem will improve in the short or medium term, according to the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology).
The IET's annual skills survey of 500 companies also revealed that businesses are turning to countries such as India, China and South Africa to plug the skills gap with 48% of companies recruiting from overseas in the last 12 months to cover specific skills shortages

Business that expect to face difficulties in recruiting adequate suitably qualified engineers, technicians or technologists over the next four years had risen from 40.2% in 2006 to 51.8% in 2007.

With the engineering and technology sector vital to the future prosperity to the UK's economy and an increase in skills shortages, makes future growth, success and competitive advantage vary difficult for many business. East of England Engineering organisations need an increased increase the pool of engineers and technicians to meet demand.

Bob Taylor, E.ON UK board member, said: "The results of the survey underline the difficult skills challenge the industry and our company now face". 
"We're taking steps to address that immediate need through re-training initiatives and by bringing in trained engineers who have completed apprenticeships with E.ON in Germany".

Many courses are fully fundable or co-funded as full Apprenticseships.

   
  • No Qualifications offered in this area currently.

 

Sector: Hospitality

Overview

The hospitality sector includes all businesses that provide food, beverages, and/or accommodation services. This includes: restaurants, pubs, bars and clubs, hotels, B&Bs, contract catering, hospitality services and care homes.

The hospitality industry in the East England has expanded in the past five years and is a key sector for development. This growth is reflected in the increased amount of opportunities for training. There is also a current shortage of skilled staff.

Staff turnover is traditionally high in this sector, but organisations with robust training programmes have been able to significantly increase staff retention and performance.

Workplace training is available in:
Housekeeping
Food and Drink service
Professional cookery
Quick service
Food preparation and cookery
Multi-skilled hospitality
Hospitality Supervision

   

 

Sector: Adult Skills for Life & Functional Skills

Overview

Two out of three jobs in the future will require a higher level of skills and better qualifications. In fact, by 2018, there will be very few unskilled jobs. Learning a new skill or gaining a new qualification could be a step in the right direction towards moving up the career ladder at work, earning more money, finding a job, or just simply improving your confidence and self-esteem.

Literacy, Numeracy and spoken English are key skills for all employees and job seekers. Whether you want to help with the kids homework, improve your job prospects, or increase your abilities in certain areas maths or english you can undertake training that will give you nationally recognised qualifications in these ket areas. The Muymar Training Consortium provides Adult Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL qualifications to all industry sectors.

Many courses can be delivered remotely and study can be performed at home. Specialist tutors will identify your strengths and weaknesses and concentrate on eliminating the weaknesses.

For the majority of people Literacy and Numeracy qualifications can be fully funded under Single Adult Skills Funding or Functional Skills can be delivered as part of the apprenticeship framework.

   

 

Sector: Distribution and Logistics

Overview

The logistics sector employs a high percentage of the workforce from above 35 years old. This is a strong indication of an aging workforce, and highlights concerns in the industry of the need to attract younger employees, in particular within the road freight industry.

25% of all employees in the logistics sector have no qualifications. 20% of employees hold level 1 qualification, with a further 20% holding level 2 qualifications.

This shows that entry into the logistics industry is not strongly related to levels of formal qualifications. This highlights skills issues within the sector, in particular within levels 3 and above.

The majority of jobs in the logistics industry are the operatives, in administration, and in the management areas. Major job types include postal workers, mail sorters and couriers, van and LGV drivers, as well as goods handling and storage occupations.

Those jobs that are ‘hard to fill' include machine operatives (such as LGV drivers), as well as sales and customer service staff and administrative staff. The major causes of these problems, according to the Sector Skills Council, are basic recruitment problems such as lack of interest in these jobs, and a lack of correctly skilled applicants.

The Sector Skills Council states that there are a lack of specific skills including communication skills, technical and practical skills, numeracy, team working, general IT and customer handling skills14.

Major skills gaps in the logistics industry are experienced predominately in administrative staff, however machine operatives, managers and senior officials and sales and customer service staff also show gaps. Lack of experience has been sited as the major cause for skills gaps, in part due to the failure of logistics employers to train their staff.

Key training issues within the industry are caused by barriers such as the lack of funding, time and cover for training. Employers in the industry undertake very little training, and in particular operatives are given far less training than senior managers and professionals.

   

 

Sector: IT

Overview

Mymar’s IT training courses comprehensively cover the most important aspects of business computer useage. They allow you to make the most of the computer and software sitting on your desktop. We will help you select from Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced levels of training to ensure that what you learn can be of immediate use and benefit in the work environment. Our courses can be delivered to a set programme or tailored to meet the specific needs of your organisation.

Courses include MS Word, MS Excel, Text Processing.