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National Skills Academy Network
Essential Information for LSC East Midlands Partners & Providers
Skills Academies are employer-led, world-class centres of excellence delivering the skills required by each major sector of the economy. The National Skills Academy network is to be the new gold standard for industry training, aiming to improve productivity and tackle skills shortages across England.
The National Skills Academy network was initiated by the Government to address the need for a world-class workforce and offer employers a totally new method of influencing the types of training methods of delivery available.
12 Academies are expected to be up and running by 2008, although each will vary in scope and structure according to the needs of employers. They focus on vocational education and skills training, delivering to 16-19 year olds and adults.
The Academies aim to:
- deliver high quality training or a specific sector
- provide first-class teaching in a modern learning environment
- be centres of innovation and creativity in skills development for their sector
- be flexible, sustaining the closest possible relationships with employers of all sizes
- build specialist networks with a range of other learning providers, so that new thinking, new methods and higher standards are shared, to the benefit of learners and employers.
 In some cases, Skills Academies will have their own buildings, but the training environments will be flexible, ie at an employer’s own premises. Skills Academies accredited training centres will be organised to ensure a good geographical spread of opportunities for learners to follow specialist courses.
For more information, click on to: www.nationalskillsacademy.gov.uk
Only Skills Academies in the approved or business planning stage can use the brand. Brand guidelines, logos, templates, brochures, pre-printed materials and other National Skills Academies creatives can be downloaded from the LSC’s dedicated campaign resources web site. Click on to: www.lsc.gov.uk/campaignresources
Skills Campaign update
Partners and providers are encouraged to use the Skills Campaign strap line and images. Derbyshire nextstep has used the images on its web site: www.nextstep-derbyshire.org/index.html
To access the Skills Campaign creative and branding guidelines, simply click on to the LSC’s dedicated campaign resources web site: www.lsc.gov.uk/campaignresources.
We’re interested to hear from you and to see how you have incorporated the skills strap line and creatives into your marketing collateral.
Partner & provider enquiries
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