UK government to start backing auto restoration apprenticeships

Kdancy
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https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/07/13/uk-government-to-start-backing-auto-restoration-apprenticeships/?refer=news
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Less than a year after its debut, the U.K. Heritage Skills Academy — the country’s only accredited institution teaching auto restoration skills — has secured government funding allowing it to revamp its course offerings and extend those courses to adults as well as youth.

As announced earlier this week, representatives from the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs were able to secure the funding from the U.K.’s Education and Skills Funding Agency. Specifically, the funding will enable the Heritage Skills Academy to meet updated criteria for the government’s Trailblazers program, which encourages groups of employers to collectively set standards for apprenticeship programs relevant to their industries.

“The original course has been re-launched with a greater emphasis on preserving basic engineering skills and practices,” the FBHVC noted in its announcement of the funding. “The improved course has been created by a panel of restoration businesses and training providers to ensure the skills taught are those needed for the historic sector.”

Based at developer Dan Geoghegan’s Bicester Heritage complex on the grounds of a former RAF air base, the Heritage Skills Academy launched in September 2017 offering apprenticeships in prewar, postwar, and modern auto restoration as well as apprenticeships in aviation, marine, and steam heritage engineering.


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  • PaulButler
    PaulButler Administrator
    The Bicester Heritage complex is a great place and Dan Geoghegan runs a fantastic shop.

    Well worth a look at.

    These skills are needed if we are going to maintain our links with the past so more power to his elbow!

    If it was closer I'd have a go myself :)
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    Long overdue.   so many skills are not being learned by the younger generations. 
  • SuperDave
    SuperDave Senior Contributor
    You couldn't be more "right".. My sons idea of working on his car is to wash and wax. Grandson says he wants a mechanical engineering degree but pays someone else to rotate his tires.
  • tombia
    tombia Member
    Two of my grandsons used their time to get educated, and earn 6 figure incomes., so now they DONT have to repair their cars. Times are changing.

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