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Nationally some 430 NVQs have staff are helping the traffic clerks and now been awarded to individuothers to put together the necessary als with the road haulage and portfolios of evidence for NVQ assessdistribution industry. The majority of ment.
these are drivers who have gained the * Staff at TDG subsidiary Harris Transporting Goods by Road NVQ. Distribution's Cardiff depot are corn* Some 32 traffic clerks are on the road pleting their NVQ level 2 assessments to achieving NVQs at level 2 by the acin Storing Goods for Distribution by creclitation of prior achievement (APA) Road and Transporting Goods by thanks to work by the Centre for Road. Some 25 of Harris's staff have Industrial and Commercial Training been involved in the pilot NVQ project, (CICT) in Middlesbrough. In a project which has been supported by the South being funded by Teesside TEC, CICT Glamorgan TEC. * Approved NVQ centre RTT Training Services (RTT) reports increasing interest from companies in getting their staff particularly drivers assessed to NVQ level 2. Ipswich-based RTT is currently in NVQ-related discussions with local companies, others based in London and large national companies including BT.
* KIT is also co-operating with Suffolk TEC on a project to turn the long-term unemployed into qualified LGV drivers with NVQ level 2 certificates. The project has grown out of the highly successful Furoqualification pilot study, which showed that such things were possible.
* From November, Leicestershire TEC has been involved in a similar project to convert the long-term unemployed into qualified category C-FE LGV drivers.
Leicestershire TEC, in association with J. Coates (HGV) Services Ltd, is operating two schemes: a 13-week scheme aimed at helping the trainees to get the vocational driving licence and a 52-week scheme, which helps them get an NVQ level 2 as well. Both schemes include work placements for the trainees and the prospects of a full time job for successful trainees are excellent, according to training provider, John Coates.