In this months' edition of the 'Rail Professional' magazine, the managing director of National Infrastructure Solutions, Davie Carns, explains why a flexible and sustainable approach will help address the skills gap in the rail industry.
The rail and infrastructure industry is on the road to an impending skills crisis, with City & Guilds and the National Skills Academy for Rail estimating that up to 120, 000 additional workers will be required over the next five or ten years.
National Infrastructure Solutions (NIS) have developed several initiatives to support rail and infrastructure training, upskilling and employee retention in the region.
These initiatives include the rail training programme NIS offers in partnership with West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and City of Wolverhampton College (CoWC). In the last year alone, the partnership has helped equip more than 200 people with skills and training within the rail industry, including to support ongoing HS2 projects.
15 November 2021 at 11:00:00
