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Apprenticeship Week – Information Day

ABA Training Ltd are holding an Information Day on February 7th for Apprenticeship Week.

Improve your business with motivated new talent, take advantage of the governments new small employer incentive, with full support from our skilled team throughout the apprenticeship programme.

Programmes offered inlcude: Accountancy, Business Administration, Business Improvement Techniques, CCLD, Engineering, Food Processing, Horticulture, Lab Technician, Management, Playwork, Retail, Teaching Assistants, Transport, Warehousing, and Waste Management

Tuesday, 7th February 2012

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ABA Training at Colchester United

ABA Training Ltd was invited to a convention at Colchester football ground to show students what was available to them after they left high school. It was a big event being held from 9 am to 7 pm for learners, Companies and parents to attend.

Our stand was decorated with sunflowers, seed packets and anything that we thought might make it stand out. We also had a raffle where we had the learners or Companies fill out a form to tell us a bit about what they are looking to do in the future; if Companies are looking to have apprentices or what learners are interested in doing when they leave school. The prizes of the raffle was a hamper full of sweets, biscuits and other bits great for Christmas and a £15 itunes voucher which the students were very excited about.

All of the ABA Team helped in manning the stand throughout the day which everyone enjoyed. The students were great and most of them seemed to know what they wanted to do but for the students that didn’t they were asking questions and seemed really interested in the Apprenticeship side learning. They all loved the idea of being able to learn on the job whilst getting paid straight out of school.

We found it a very successful day in getting ABA Training Ltd out there for people to learn more about us and what we do.

Recruitment Day for Trainers and Assessors

ABA Training are hosting a recruitment day for Trainers and Assessors on Friday the 9th December 2011. Download the flyer by clicking here.

Emerson Team Presentations

After completing their NVQ Level 2 Business Improvement Techniques (BIT) qualification, the staff at Emerson Network Power in Chelmsford gave their team presentations to senior members of staff on 4th July 2011. The presentations were attended by Dave Hazell, Managing Director and the senior management team as well as ABA Director Anne Howes and trainer for the BIT course, Tony Catchpole. The presentations outlined recommendations for significant improvements that could be made within the company.

John Pennick, Quality Manager said "The NVQ project teams have highlighted how well cross functional teams work; and the ability of personnel to identify methods of improvement. This is the sort of progress the company needs to make, to successfully improve itself with regards to the quest to gain SC21".

Dave Hazell gave thanks to the teams for all the efforts in the four projects, and told the teams "you all should be proud of the work that you have done".

Employment Opportunities at ABA Training Ltd

ABA Training are delighted to announce two exciting new opportunities now available.

We are looking for both a full time administrator and a full time assistant to our administration team at Sudbury and

Applicants with previous experience of working with government funded training services would be favourable.

First learners embark on new Apprenticeship in Sustainable Resource Management

ABA Training are delighted to announce that our first 3 learners have started on the Apprenticeship in Sustainable Resource Management for the waste management & recycling industry. Energy & Utility Skills (EU Skills), the Sector Skills Council for the gas, power, waste management and water industries were extremely pleased that the hard work that went into developing the Apprenticeship is now coming into fruition and included ABA Training in their press release.

For the full news article please click here.

Gravesend Presentation

17 Gravesend licensed taxi drivers were presented with their NVQ in Road Passenger Vehicle Driving on the 14 March 2011 at a Presentation Ceremony held at the Istead Community Centre.

Certificates were presented by Anne Howes (Director of ABA Training).

Chelmsford Presentation

On the 8th of March we held a presentation for 20 drivers of Chelmsford at the Keene Hall, who successfully passed their NVQ in Road Passenger Vehicle Driving.

Peterborough Presentation

17 licensed drivers of Peterborough were presented with their certificates for passing their NVQ in Road Passenger Vehicle Driving on the 23rd of February at the East community Centre.

Welcome Back Vicki

We are pleased to welcome back Vicki Bond from our accounts department. Vicki returned on the 9th March from maternity leave following the safe arrival of her baby boy Mason Bond.

Congratulations to Vicki, Her husband Gary and Big Brother Lewis.

New Apprentice starts at ABA training Ltd

We would like to welcome our newest recruit Sam to ABA. She joined us as a Business Administration apprentice on the 21st February and we look forward to working with her.

ABA Training – Trailblazing Road Passenger Transport

ABA Training Ltd are proud to announce they are the FIRST provider to be accredited by Go Skills for its training programmes to the Road Passenger Transport Sector.

As an accredited provider, it means that anyone within the sector trained by ABA Training will be recognised as “Professional Status”. A Professional Status register is being developed by Go Skills for tendering bodies to use when offering contracts.

GoSkills’ Commercial Director, Jackie O’Brien says: “We are delighted to welcome ABA on board. As the first provider to have successfully completed our application process, they set a high standard for service delivery and training performance that will benefit local authorities”

Derbyshire gets professional driver help

GoSkills, the Sector Skills Council for Passenger Transport, is helping Derbyshire County Council to improve the professionalism of drivers providing special needs transport services in the County. The company is looking into new ways of accrediting contracted drivers and has already begun accrediting independent providers of driver training.

Ian Watts, Senior Transport Officer at Derbyshire County Council says: “We are delighted to have GoSkills work alongside us in raising the standard of service for our citizens. By 31st December 2011 we will require all drivers to have trained to VRQ, NVQ level 2 or MiDAS standards. Through its provider accreditation scheme, GoSkills ensures any new demand for training is met by competent and legitimate training providers.”

Goskills’ accreditation scheme was launched in August 2010 and recently signed its first accredited provider, ABA Training.

ABA Training ISO 9001 2008 Accredited

We are delighted to announce that we successfully passed our ISO 9001 2008 assessment on the 8th February and have now received our certificate to show that we are an ISO registered organisation.

For a full view of the certificate please click here.