ECITB products and services
The purpose of the ECITB is to help employers and employees within the Engineering Construction Industry to ensure their skills and competence needs are met.
The ECITB provides a unique, integrated programme of grant supported standards based training and qualifications solutions built within a three strand strategy.
| Attract: | Better informing and influencing more suitable people to enter the industry from school, universities and other industries. |
| Develop: | Ensuring that entrants to and existing people in the industry are supported by relevant and easy to use training programmes that are quality assured. |
| Qualify: | Ensuring that the people entering and remaining in the workforce have their skills recognised, to assure and maintain competence to agreed standards. |
Apprenticeships and up-skilling programmes exist in 20 key engineering and technical skills areas vital to Engineering Construction. Support is also available for further skills development in supervisory programmes and project management and control.
A very important project is underway to develop a sector qualification strategy for Engineering Construction. It is part of the UK wide overhaul of training and qualifications being done in partnership with Sector Skills Councils. The overall aim is to create a framework of qualifications, linked to accredited training, that provides bridges and pathways for new entrant and existing worker development from craft to project management skill levels.
Work is underway with the Engineering Council to provide much needed pathways for BEng graduates to achieve Chartered status.