“Raising awareness” doesn’t work. How do I know? Let’s face it: if doing awareness raising talks in schools a couple of times a year was enough, we wouldn’t have a skills shortage, would we? But ‘raising awareness’ is potentially much worse than simply being ineffective. We want to solve the skills shortage. But the metric […]
https://youtu.be/kr7h8crYAYQ VIDEO CREDIT: This is Coca-Cola’s advert, and nothing about me posting it here implies anything else. All credits, images and copyright remain with them, in perpetuity (they’ve got a big legal team) It’s almost that time of year again when our TV viewing becomes colonised by adverts full of reassuringly predictable depictions of snow, […]
It’s Summit season in construction. Events are underway, panels are convening, speakers are sharing their ideas and insights. I’ve recently come back from this year’s CIC Construction Industry Summit 2016 – great event, lovely venue, fascinating people, and a broad range of speakers and topics (though I would say that, given that I was one […]
Paul Fenner and Kathryn Lennon Johnson BIRMINGHAM accountants Moore Stephens has launched a partnership with the team behind a new programme influencing generations of young people to be part of the construction industry.
Standing Alone, Collaboratively – a report for CIS2016 At the heart of everything to do within construction and built environment is People. Whether they’re delivering the work, paying for it, or living with the outcomes of it. The information and views in this report are based on research collated at our Built Environment Skills in […]
Construction is a robust sector, literally and metaphorically, and we have overcome many challenges before. I can only imagine that this is why we’ve never reached a pain threshold that compels us, as a united sector, to tackle the skills gap. I’m no economist, but rumours of a post-Brexit mini recession (source: Construction News, 27/7/2016) […]
A Virtual Site Visit Carillion & Built Environment Skills in Schools working in partnership When students were struggling to attend an Open Doors site visit in person at Paradise Circus in Birmingham due to flooding in the area, Carillion and Built Environment Skills in Schools teamed up to come up with an innovative solution – […]
Recorded at University of Wolverhampton’s Psycon event, May 2016
[This is an edit from the full length video available here http://www.beskillsinschools.co.uk/bess-at-paradise-circus-with-carillion-open-doors-16/]