National Skills Academy’s new skills boost
THE Darlington-based National Skills Academy for the Process Industries (NSAPI) is being expanded to champion skills in two further key areas.
NSAPI, which was won for Tees Valley against tough opposition in 2008, is to extend its work and create new academy hubs for biotechnology and composites.
The Tees Valley boost is part of the Government’s announcement earlier this week to create new skills academies and improve training of workers in industries ranging from rail to biotechnology.
The expanded Tees Valley academy - along with new academies focussing on rail engineering, logistics and green building services - will be funded by £12m of public investment matched by private firms.
A further £2.9m Government funding is being spent on an academy for the power industry, with over 300,000 people expected to take part in all the training programmes over the next four years.
Phil Jones, chief executive of NSAPI, said: “The National Skills Academy for the Process Industries has been going for two years, and very successfully.
“Expanding our work demonstrates the belief and trust in what we are doing.”
He added the two new academy hub areas were key sectors to the Tees Valley and the North-east.
Teesside is already making much progress in the biotechnology sector.
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