CITY & GUILDS TRAINING SKILLS ACADEMY
Investing In Trainers For The Future
Skills Academy: Investing in trainers for the future. Inspiring futures, transforming lives, improving education.
What is Skills Academy?
At City & Guilds Training, we believe everyone, no matter where they are in their career, deserves the opportunity to train, re-train and keep training.
That’s why we created the City & Guilds Skills Academy. A place where industry experience becomes educational power. Where the next generation of trainers are shaped, by those who’ve lived the job.
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Our mission is simple – to invest in the future by empowering professionals to pass on their expertise. To guide others into work, help them grow on the job, and move into the next.
Whether you’re new to teaching or already shaping minds in the classroom, the Skills Academy is here to support your journey — with ongoing professional development, opportunities to upskill into new competencies, and pathways to grow into broader roles across education and industry.
The trainers within our Skills Academy, don’t just change their own career pathway they help shape hundreds more.
The Skills Academy ensures the trainers hard-won knowledge lives on – not in the past, but in every future engineer, technician, and rail worker who learns with them.
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SKILLS ACADEMY
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For professionals currently working in industry
Course Itinerary
For professionals currently working in industry, our classes are delivered over nine weeks and are broken down as follows:
- Week 1: Induction, Soft Skills
- Week 2 – 5: Professional Qualification
- Week 6: Micro-Teaching Sessions
- Week 7: Compliance Workshops
- Week 8: E-Learning (Mandatory)
- Week 9: Health & Safety
Upon completion of our nine-week programme, individuals will achieve the certificates they need to work at City & Guilds Training as a core part of our Education & Delivery team.
Certificates
Professional Certificates
- Level 3 Award in Assessing Vocationally Related Achievement
- Level 3 Award in Education and Training
- Institution of Occupational Safety & Health – Managing Safely
Mandatory Training
- Education & Training Foundation – Safeguarding in Further Education and Training
- Future Learn – Prevent for Further Education and Training
- Qualsafe Level 3 Award Emergency First Aid at Work (RCF)
- IHasco – Manual Handling
- IHasco – Fire Awareness
- IHasco – Driver Awareness
In-house Training
- City & Guilds – Equality and Diversity for Employees
- City & Guilds – Data Protection at City & Guilds
Working as a City & Guilds Trainer
Once verified as a City & Guilds trainer, individuals will receive a unique opportunity – a guaranteed employment contract** (**subject to availability, achievement of attainment grades, & references).
And that’s not all. Those that successfully complete our nine-week programme will also benefit from access to a resource hub with up-to-date support and industry specific materials.
The resources available support continuous professional improvement, as well as the option to include some of the materials in lesson plans.
For practising teachers
Our Skills Academy provides access to:
- A peer-to-peer network of like-minded colleagues, all of whom are committed to teaching the future workforce of Engineers, Electricians and Rail workers,
- Industry news helping teachers stay up to date with the latest developments,
- Best-practice in teaching methods,
- Invitations to industry and education events throughout the year.
City & Guilds Training
Interested in Skills Academy?
Complete our quick, no obligation form to become a City & Guilds Tutor with Skills Academy.
OUR TRAINING CENTRES
Centre Locations
Gatwick
Our electrical training facilities at Mitre Court and Explorer 2 are just 2 minutes south of Gatwick Airport. They are comfortable, light and airy environments in which students can learn a wide range of practical and theory based skills.
Leeds
Phoenix House has raised the bar for electrical training centres in the UK. It’s situated east of Leeds, just off of the M1 / A1. This makes it easily accessible from Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, York, Harrogate and all over Yorkshire.
Portsmouth
Situated in the scenic location of Port Solent, our Portsmouth Training Centre offers lots of bright, light spaces to train in. We also have a state-of-the-art test track to deliver our industry-leading rail training courses such as PTS Practical Event, DCCR, COSS and many more.
Workington
As one of our 3 engineering and nuclear training centres in Cumbria, our Workington training facility provides a comfortable, light and airy environment in which learners from across the region can learn a wide range of practical and theory based skills.
Cardiff
In partnership with Coleg y Cymoedd, our training centre in Nantgarw is located just 8 miles from Cardiff city centre and offers a comprehensive programme of open courses for learners in the surrounding areas.
Furness
Centrally located in Lightburn Trading Estate, our Gen2 Furness Skills Centre offers a large range of training courses and workshops to learners across Cumbria.
