Welder training facility opens | whatshappeninginmanufacturing

A dedicated welding classroom and workshop with fully equipped welding bays has been officially opened at Burton & South Derbyshire College. It is one of 10 colleges that have agreed to provide training facilities funded by the Weldability-Sif Foundation Charity, set up by Letchworth, Herts-based welding products supplier Weldability-SIF to encourage the development of new welder training facilities across the UK.

The facility was opened by Jennie Hawkins, Weldability-Sif Foundation Director and Trustee along with Howard Boswell, Vice Principal at the College (pictured).

“Welding plays an important role in manufacturing and is used in a multitude of different industries including furniture production, shipbuilding, automotive manufacturing, as well as energy and UK infrastructure industries,” Hawkins said. “Welding plays an active part in keeping it all to-gether and foundation level welder skills training at Burton and South Derbyshire College is another step towards a full  programme designed to meet demand and overcome the current skills gaps in the UK welding industry.”

The new centres will provide trainee welders with the opportunity to progress from the foundation level through to a passport to practice welding internationally, leading in turn towards higher TWI qualifications including up to the TWI International European Welding Diploma.

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Ken Hurst began his career as a journalist in London over 30 years ago, working on a range of publications before moving on to weekly newspaper production in the newly-independent Zambia of the 1970s. He returned to the UK where his work included spells on newspapers and magazines, before moving to head up Norwich Union’s corporate affairs division. In the 1990s he moved on to freelance, co-own and publish the B2B audio magazine Sound and front the BBC radio Yesterday’s Papers programme. There followed six years as Business Editor at Britain’s biggest selling regional daily newspaper, The Eastern Daily Press, where he led an award-winning team and for whom he still writes a weekly socio/political comment column. Subsequently, he was Group Editorial Director at CBM, responsible for its UK and US magazine output – including The Manufacturer magazine – research-driven industry reports and live events content. Currently he is Contributing Editor at Works Management magazine publisher Findlay Media and Chairman of the consumer publishing house TNT Multimedia Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the British Association of Communicators in Business.

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