On Technical Training Solutions
Provider description
Technical Training Solutions has its roots in 1981 at the EETPU training college at Cudham Hall in Sevenoaks. The union wanted their members to embrace the electronic technologies that were emerging and since government and academia seemed unable to meet the challenge a more radical solution was proposed: an engineering skills training college with a no-expenses-spared approach to training so that the delegates would learn useful, practical, up-to-the-minute skills and knowledge that would help them in their daily work.
Throughout mergers with other unions (AEU, MSF and TGWU) over the years this single premise has been our guiding light. The union membership became less and less engineering-based but we maintained our determination to ensure that the training that we provide is practical and interesting engineering skills taught by experts in their fields, leading to the legally competent performance of these skills in the workplace.
In recent years the training college took on its own identity (earned over the years), and became a separate business to the union - a private company with five partners continuing the tradition of providing no-nonsense engineering skills training aimed at blue-chip companies throughout the British Isles.
Our partners are: Martin Smith, an MoD electronics design engineer and MoD graduate engineer instructor; Shaun Coster, a Marconi electronics commissioning and design engineer; John Clatworthy, a multi-disciplined engineer with a variety of training experience; Fred Lemont, an electronics engineer with multi-disciplinary experience drawn from years of working in the research and commercial sectors; and David Larner, a Chartered project engineer at GEC's research labs and technical journalist.
Our employees are our most important assets. Their talents in dealing with our customers, teaching the courses, co-ordinating the complex training assignments that we are given, ensuring that everything runs smoothly and striving for constant improvement are essential ingredients in the continuing aim for perfection.
WHAT WE DO
We set out to teach top-quality engineering skills training courses and we have achieved this - we constantly strive to make them as good as it's possible to - but over the years we have also refined our methods, adding several enhancements to the construction stages of course description, design of the courses, assessment, certification and consolidation stages. We believe that these are important to our customers: it's easy to see what the courses consist of, what value they will gain from attending them and how they can apply their candidates' new knowledge and skills in their workplace in a structured, evidence-rich way.
