This year's brilliant SAR Day – thank you! This week we came together in Plymouth for our latest Self-Assessment Review (SAR) Day. It was a welcome opportunity to reconnect across centres, share expertise, reflect on our achievements and celebrate the colleagues who...
Train as a Gas Engineer in less than a year Thinking about a new career? Want a trade with high demand, solid earning potential, and job security? Switching careers into the gas industry doesn't mean starting from scratch or putting your life on hold for years. Our...
The South West’s Top Independent Training Provider is Expanding in Bristol Bristol has an incredible, fast-growing economy, but regional businesses are facing the same major headache: finding and retaining top-tier talent. As a city, Bristol has no shortage of...
You know we love an apprenticeship success story... and Mayflower Auto Service's Business Admin apprentice - Jude Lidstone - is proof that with the right support, apprenticeships can be a massive shortcut to real-world success. After finishing school, Jude went...
Regional Training Needs a Preventative Overhaul Alan Milburn’s recent interim review on youth unemployment dropped a stark warning: the UK is facing a “generational fault line.” The headlines sound grim. Right now, over one million young people are classified as NEET...
Focus Achieves 72.4% in Regional Apprenticeship Achievement Rates When we say we that real outcomes for our students are our number one priority, we mean it - and we have the data to back it up. The 2024/25 Department for Education (DfE) apprenticeship achievement...
Leverage new incentives with Focus Training We hear it from the employers we work with every day: it's getting harder and harder for small businesses to justify the cost of an apprentice. But major changes to incentivise employers under the new Youth Guarantee is...
Fast-Track your Recruitment Finding motivated, reliable site workers who already understand the basics needn't be a headache. At Focus Training, we know that you don't have time to waste training new recruits from scratch, or waiting around for CSCS cards. You need...
Join a Fast-Growing Sector The South West construction sector is expanding fast, and the demand for trained, site-ready workers who can get stuck in right away is at an all-time high. Here at Focus we've used our government-funded Skills Bootcamp provision to create a...
Pictured here with Focus Training Managing Director, Mark Trewin, is successful new accounting teacher Nuruz Zamal We’ve always said that the best way to learn, whether it's a trade or professional business skills, is from the people who’ve actually done the job. And...