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BEST matches apprentices with employers and employers with apprentices! Working with the highest quality training-providers, BEST has established regional programmes with the technical part of the apprenticeship delivered by further education colleges, and BEST, through its assessment centre, delivering the work-based and NVQ elements.

BEST acts as a mediator between the learner, employer and college, ensuring all parties work together to achieve the BEST result!

BEST also offers NVQ’s in leadership and management, plus Train to Gain services.

OUR MISSION

"To be the preferred choice training provider for our sector, achieveing through a committed team striving for excellence in training equality of opportunity, higher retention of learners and increased percentage of qualifications"

OUR VISION

"To become the benchmark state of the art training and development service for the Building Services Engineering industries from craft trainee to chartered engineer so helping to build a better enviroment"

 

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New wage agreement talks ‘on course’

Seven of the industry’s largest contractors remain in consultation with their combined workforce of around 6,000 operatives about the Building Engineering Services National Agreement (BESNA).

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PM: £250m pilot to give employers power over skills training

Businesses will be given the power to design, develop and purchase the vocational training programme they need under a £250 million plan announced today by the Prime Minister. The move is designed to boost economic growth and ensure that the UK workforce has the skills that businesses require.

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