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System Training has opened a new training facility in Maryport which it hopes will provide job opportunities and automotive apprenticeship programmes for young people across West Cumbria.

The new facility will employ two lecturers and assessors and additional support staff and services will come from System Training’s newly refurbished headquarters at Carlisle Airport.

The first intake of 16 students will undergo a 26-week City & Guilds Level 2 Vehicle Fitting Apprenticeship where they will learn to repair and replace tyres, brakes and exhaust systems.

They can then progress on to a Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Level 2 Apprenticeship which builds on their experience and skills. The apprenticeship also provides them with employment within local motor garages and vehicle repair cent...

System Training’s new Skills Training Academy received Royal approval after HRH The Princess Royal officially opened the new centre in Carlisle today. The new training facility is the result of a £1m investment by System Training and provides it with more teaching classrooms and practical training workshops.

System Training, the UK’s largest logistics training provider, welcomed The Princess Royal who has a long and distinguished relationship with the road haulage and logistics industries. As Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Logistics Corps, a past Master of the Worshipful Company of Carmen and an honorary member of the Road Haulage Association, The Princess has a keen interest in logistics.

The training centre, which is part-funded by Skills Funding Agency, will be used primari...

System Training, the UK’s largest logistics training provider, is set to unveil its new state-of-the-art truck simulator when the machine takes centre stage during the company’s first ever visit to the Commercial Vehicle Show at the NEC in Birmingham.
 
System Training believes the new simulator will help make driver training more sustainable, affordable and help attract greater numbers of young people, including female drivers, via Apprenticeships, into the logistics industry. In addition the modern technology will help deliver Driver CPC courses and SAFED (Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving) training to help businesses reduce their fuel consumption and carbon emissions.
 
The simulator, one of two ECA FAROS machines with a combined value of £120,000, represents a significant investm



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Lauren Jackson is an Apprentice who is proving a bit hit with her placement employer at Milestone Motors in Wakefield.

Lauren has been doing a six month Vehicle Fitting Fast Fit Apprenticeship with System Training in Leeds and is due to finish at the end of March.

Like other young students on the course, she has been taught the theory behind the job but also learning some important practical skills like how to repair tyres and exhausts.

But now her placement is really helping her to build on those skills and also giving her greater experience in other areas that only on-the-job training can do.

"The Apprenticeship is a good mix between classroom training and practical skills and that is what really appealed to me," said Lauren. "I'm on my placement in the garage for four d...

Work has started on a £1 million investment by System Training to expand and improve the training facilities at its Carlisle headquarters. The expansion will allow the newly-enlarged business to deliver a greater number of Apprenticeships to young people nationally and continue to provide driver training services to many of the UK’s largest supermarkets and transport operators.

The six-month construction work will see more teaching rooms being added to the site as well as bespoke practical training facilities to allow a more hands-on training approach for Apprentices.

The building improvement work consists of seven new teaching classrooms, four offices, a canteen and expansion of the existing practical training bays. With training courses and rooms at full capacity, the development...

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System Training, one of the UK’s leading training companies, has now become approved by the Health and Safety Executive as a licensed provider of first aid training. 

Based in Carlisle, System Training already benefits from being a provider of a wide range of accredited health and safety training courses, as well as providing consultancy services to clients.  Following its latest accreditation System can now offer the new three-day First Aid at Work course in addition to Emergency First Aid at Work, Paediatric First Aid and Re-qualifying first aid training. 

Regular open courses will be held at System Training’s existing centre at Carlisle Airport Business Park, and can also be delivered to client groups at their own premises.  Casualty simulation exercises and as...

Two leading companies involved in the motor trade have joined forces to promote apprenticeships and raise skill standards.

TMS Motor Spares and System Training hosted an open day in Carlisle where 20 representatives from garages in the local area had the opportunity to learn more about the options available for motor vehicle apprenticeships.

A range of free or subsidised courses are available to help companies integrate young workers into their businesses while also making efficiencies and building up their available skills base.  The motor vehicle training schemes on offer range from NVQs, Key Skills and Apprenticeships to the Certificate in Automotive Management – and all are fully accredited by the IMI and City & Guilds, the leading awarding bodies for the motor sector.

With em...