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Shell Step Business Awards 2009
We are very happy to announce that our two placement students, who have been taking part in the Shell Step awards, won 5 of the 11 awards at the Shell Step Awards 2009 for Suffolk and Essex.
Shelley George, a second year English student from the University of Southampton and Jonathan Mason, a Business Studies student from the University of Lincoln were taking part in the Shell Step awards – which aims to bring together students who want to gain valuable experience on real work placements with companies who want an injection of fresh ideas, talent and enthusiasm to inspire and build their business.
Shelley, who was based in the Great Baddow office, was the winner in her category of Marketing and Market Research. She was also awarded with a commendation in the Best Report category.
Jonathan Mason, who was based in the Sudbury office for his 8 week placement was the winner in the category of Economics and Business Research, he also won the award for the Best Presentation.
To top off the evening for ABA Training and its two students Jonathan won the overall award of The Most Enterprising Undergraduate in Suffolk and Essex 2009 for his work in developing the passenger assistant training scheme for community transport drivers.
Students and Business in Step
For the second consecutive year, ABA Training Ltd has welcomed Shell Step Students to their humble offices. The Shell Step scheme allows undergraduates and graduates to take part in eight week project-based placements with local organisations. For Jonathan Mason and Shelley George, ABA Training was the perfect match.
For eight weeks Jonathan and Shelley have been helping ABA Training Ltd with Market Research and Marketing, researching new courses and funding opportunities, updating the website, creating flyers, and generating PR.
As well as benefitting ABA Training, the students are able to gain hands-on experience in their job of choice, gaining a real insight into the world of Marketing and boosting their CVS and subsequent career prospects. Along the way, Shell Step has also offered them valuable help with report-writing and presentations, which will no doubt be useful in later life.
By the 25th August the students must submit a 1,500 word report, and do a presentation in front of a judging panel where the best students from the local area will be in line to win cash prizes for their efforts and achievements.
An Awards Ceremony is due to take place on the 27th August at Colchester Town Hall, where Anne and Bill, directors of ABA Training Ltd, will enjoy a formal sit-down meal with the students, to reward them for their hard work.
Finalist of the Essex Business Awards
We are proud to have made it through the selection rounds to be finalist in the Essex Business Awards 2009. We are finalists in two categories:
- Best Growing Business – this recognizes the significant growth that we have gone through over the past year and since incorporation in 2005.
- The training that we are doing with Teaching Assistants in partnership with Wells Hall CP School is recognized in the Best Training Programme category.
The award ceremony will be held at Braxted Hall on the 18th September.
Second round of Nottingham city taxi drivers to graduate with NVQ
Taxi drivers involved in a training scheme supported by Experience Nottinghamshire, will be graduating tomorrow at Trent Bridge cricket ground after completing a course designed to enhance the visitor experience.
It’s the second graduation ceremony this year, and more than 100 drivers have benefitted from the training that took place between January and June 2009. All graduates have achieved an NVQ level 2 in the Road Passenger Vehicle Driver course, provided by ABA Training Ltd.
First Nottingham City Taxi Drivers to Graduate with NVQ
More than 100 local taxi drivers are set to graduate from a new training course developed to raise standards of customer service. It follows an initiative by Experience Nottinghamshire to improve the quality of the visitor experience.
A graduation ceremony will take place at Trent Bridge cricket ground on Wednesday 28 January when the first graduates to take part in the scheme in Nottinghamshire collect their certificates.
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Eastern Region National Training Awards
We are delighted and extremely proud to announce that we won our category at the Eastern Region National Training Awards on the 25th September 2008, for the ABA Training Driving to Success training programme, for taxi and private hire drivers. There were 28% more entries this year, and the organizers (ukskills) said the standard was higher than ever, so to be a finalist was a huge achievement. To win was something else!
The award was made after a rigorous assessment process which involved a visit to our offices, discussions with learners and a telephone interview to the Local Authority, to confirm the robustness of the programme, and the benefits to learners and other stakeholders. The fact that we were then selected as finalists and ultimately winners is a testament to the hard work and commitment of our team.
The award ceremony was attended and enjoyed by the administration teams from both of our offices.
Taxi Driver Training Programme Wins Two Awards
ABA Training Ltd of Suffolk and Group Taxibus Ltd from Chelmsford have been celebrating their success at not just one, but TWO prestigious events recently.
The Driving to Success training programme which was designed by ABA Training to train the drivers of Group Taxibus Ltd, to ensure the company was in the ideal location for the 2012 Olympic and Para-Olympic games and other developments.
At the finals of the National Training Awards 2007, in Cambridge the programme was Highly Recommended and also won Best Company Training Programme in the 10th Essex Business Awards.
The programme enabled drivers to achieve both the NVQ in Road Passenger Transport at the same time as earning themselves a BTEC qualification in Transporting Passengers by Taxi and Private Hire. The training programme covered such areas as customer service, equal opportunities, disability awareness, safety, the carriage of luggage and parcels by taxi, route planning and UK taxi and private hire regulations and ensured the drivers were putting into practice what they learnt on the course through assessment and monitoring.
The programme has been so successful; it has gone on to become the Quality Taxi Partnership model for Chelmsford and Braintree councils.
GoSkills helps Taxibus pickup training for 20 drivers
Chelmsford operator begins journey to gain Passenger Transport NVQs
Proud of its reputation for providing the ‘one stop’ answer to the needs of its customers, Chelmsford Taxibus is currently boosting its service repertoire by putting 20 drivers through NVQ Level 2 Road Passenger Transport training.
Funded by Chelmsford LSC’s Employer Training Pilot (ETP) Profit from Learning scheme, the training was brokered by GoSkills and is being delivered by the award winning, ABA Training Ltd.
Super-Trained Taxi Drivers
Around 50 taxi drivers in Essex will become among the most professional cabbies in the country; receiving a qualification and membership of a scheme helping them become "ambassadors" for Essex.
At an awards ceremony the drivers from Chelmsford were presented with their NVQs certificates in Road Passenger Transport, by rCllr John Spencer ECC and Cllr Potter Chelmsford Borough Council.
The drivers have also become fully fledged members of the Quality Taxi Partnership.
The NVQs have been introduced as part of a scheme to help taxi drivers become ambassadors for the area they serve, with training on customer care, awareness of medical conditions and disabilities. They are also trained in health and safety, safer driving skills and legal matters. They will in essence, be supremely qualified for the work they undertake giving their customers an even better service and a lasting impression of professionalism. The training programme has continued to roll out, and currently there are 100 more Chelmsford drivers on the programme.
Training breaks down ‘them and us’ barrier
In 2002 a small Essex company was "in turmoil" before it found a long-term solution to its problems through staff training. Midwest Microwave International Ltd (MMIL), of Widford Industrial Estate, Chelmsford, worked in partnership with ABA Training of Writtle, Chelmsford to turn itself around and have gained a place in the final of the National Training Awards 2004.
