News | North Highland Construction Training Group

Major CITB funding boost to retain more apprentices in Scottish construction

by | Apr 5, 2019 | News

Employers and apprentices in the Scottish construction industry welcomed news today that the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) will increase its annual attendance grant funding to £2,500 for each apprentice in training. As an added retention incentive,...

Two boys arrested after Southampton construction site inferno

by | Mar 29, 2019 | News

Hampshire Police have arrested an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of arson in connection with a major fire at a construction site in Southampton on Tuesday. The blaze destroyed a timber frame building under construction and took more than 70...

Short Duration Course Grant Claims

by | Mar 28, 2019 | News

Today we are launching a campaign to ensure employers are seeing the maximum value from CITB short duration grants by encouraging uptake for training already completed. Please help us to raise awareness of this by forwarding this email to your levy-registered...

Drug and Alcohol Awareness Day

by | Mar 28, 2019 | Events, News

We are pleased to announce that we are holding a Drug and Alcohol Awareness day for our apprentices in the North Highland College UHI, Ormlie Road, Thurso on 23 April 2019. This will be delivered by NHS Highland Drug and Acohol Support Team. We are hoping that the...

CITB to sell Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS) to NOCN

by nhctg_admin | Jan 28, 2019 | News

CITB has agreed to sell its Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS) to NOCN Group, one of the sector’s largest Awarding Organisations (AO). The sale marks an important step in CITB’s move away from owning and servicing card schemes. Moving forwards CITB will...