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Building Skills for Construction was a New Scots Refugee Integration Delivery project led by Dundee City Council, in partnership with Fife and Clackmannanshire Councils and WEA Scotland (the Workers Educational Association), which aimed to help skilled refugees gain the certification they need to work in the construction industry. Many of those resettled in Scotland through schemes set up in response to foreign conflicts are highly skilled individuals from a construction background, all of whom have the right to work in the UK, but not necessarily the correct qualifications, professional registrations or knowledge about how to enter the Scottish Construction Industry.
£65450 of funding from the Scottish Government and the EU Asylum Migration and Integration Fund was used to develop two training courses for beginner and intermediate students, aiming to give non-native speakers the language and knowledge they need to pass the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) operatives test. The materials, developed by the WEA Scotland, are available to download, free of charge, to any individual or ESOL trainer across the UK to help adult learners pass the CSCS test.
There are 5 folders -
- Teachers materials with 3 guides (available below)
- The introductory level course
- The CSCS preparation course
- Supplementary dialogues
- Materials prepared for Arabic Learners
Partners were told by colleagues working in employability, criminal justice and community-based literacies programmes that the materials would be of assistance to native speakers with literacy and numeracy barriers to their learning.
So you can find out more about the project and the content of the course, a report on the project and the 3 tutor guides are available below. If you would like more information about this project or to download the resources, please contact kirsty.forrester@dundeecity.gov.uk
We would welcome feedback on the resources and how they are used.
