Peter Sandman
Peter Sandman, commercial director, City of Liverpool College talks after Insider's Green Skills Gap Roundtable.
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00:00So the key themes for today for me were very much around how we bring
00:04employers into the kind of training and development programs that the college are running. I think there's a real reflection and reality
00:11that those employers need to work kind of more effectively together and also to engage
00:17ourselves as the colleges, as those training providers, just in terms of work that we're doing specifically around the apprenticeship programs to make them more flexible
00:25and to make them shorter in some cases, but also so that we can take some of the kind of key craft skills
00:31such as kind of gas fitters, gas fitting, and sort of try to take the appropriate modules around green technologies, for instance heat pumps,
00:39so that we can bring those together into more suitable employer facing courses that are probably shorter in duration as well.
00:46Also, I think that the willingness to collaborate between training providers such as the college and those employers was also recognized
00:53with a view that this is very fast changing, particularly within the green technology sector, and as a college
00:58we need to be aware and almost one step ahead in some cases of what those needs are
01:02so that we can promote the sector to those individuals we're looking to bring into it,
01:05but we can also make sure that we've got that training in place for those that maybe need to reskill or upskill
01:10to improve productivity of business, but also support our net zero ambitions.