Training Courses

Training is something that is talked about a lot in politics and current affairs. The lack of training is identified as the root cause of many of the problems we face in the world and our modern society today. This skills gap is very much seen a one of the major problems facing society today. If we want to live in a modern and convenient world who is going to make this happen? Who is going to build our modern building, maintain our cities’ infrastructure and build our modern transport infrastructure if we are not training the people to do these jobs? The bigger problem seems to be that young people are not, and indeed, do not want to train to do these jobs.

To provide the training courses to train people to fill this skills gap is only part of the solution. We still have to encourage people to sign up for these courses. This is a big problem if people would rather study the arts and humanities rather than the sciences and engineering. How do we encourage our young people to enrol on an engineering course and learn about thermo dynamics rather than spend three years at university reading Byron, Shelley and Keats? Even at a lower level of education, young people are not joining training courses to become plumbers, electricians and joiners. These are trades that a quickly becoming very scarce and very expensive to engage. We need to make these trades and professions more appealing and perhaps more lucrative to embark upon.

Working with heavy machinery and industrial equipment needs to be made as appealing as sitting in front of a computer for a career.