Skills body puts costly modernisation drive on ice

摘要

The industry's skills council has shelved its multimillion-pound modernisation drive amid mounting problems including a lack of government support, Building can reveal. The CITB, which is mainly funded by industry firms through a levy, but is overseen by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), had planned a major restructure dubbed Project Orion. The initiative, which CITB says could have eventually cost up to £7m, included creating a separate commercial training business to compete with private sector training providers.