Category: Technology

Klein Tools talk about how coronavirus has had an effect on the way apprentices will learn in this academic year. How is COVID-19 pandemic affecting apprenticeship programs? Delivery will be different, technology will play a much bigger part in sharing knowledge, and creating teaching resourcesPractical sessions will be different, it is hard to imagine an environment where students will be sharing tools for exampleNumbers will drop considerably; with the slowdown…

FIVE new apprentices have started work at Halton Housing, says Runcorn and Widnes World. The firm welcomes Ben Jones (Business Admin Apprentice), Maciej Gretkowski (ICT Apprentice), Daniel Rogers (Joinery Apprentice), Rhys Gwillym (Joinery Apprentice) and Jamie MacDonald (Electrical Apprentice). The apprentices will learn the skills needed for specific roles by shadowing colleagues and gaining hands-on experience ‘on the job’. At the same time, they will also be studying for an…

Most people today will live somewhere that is capable of becoming a smart home. This shows how far processing power has developed in the last two decades, giving the public access to products that were at one time only available to the super-rich. ‘Intelligent households’ have been in development since the late 1960s and the idea of ‘home control systems’ can even be traced back to the turn of the…

A TRAINEE electrician from Oxford is in the running to win an apprentice of the year award says Oxford Mail. Katie Harvey, an apprentice at Darke & Taylor in Long Hanborough, is one of eight finalists from 540 applications in the NICEIC and ELECSA 2020 Electrical Apprentice of the Year competition. She said: “I’m really happy that I got through to the final. I actually applied last year but didn’t make…

Marshall-Tufflex’s new Sterling Compact trunking was recently used in the construction of two temporary medical facilities in Dublin and Limerick, both designed to help with the response to COVID-19 in the local areas. The Step-down and Self-isolation Centre at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin provided 325 beds in the converted conference centre for those who tested positive for COVID-19, as well as 1,000 beds in the hotel for people unable…

By Olivier Blum, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Schneider Electric and Mathis Wackernagel, Founder and President, Global Footprint Network. The coronavirus crisis has been reminding us of one essential truth – we are vulnerable. For all its ingenuity, its resilience, its courage even, humanity has been humbled by a microorganism that has disrupted, even destroyed, many lives around the world. While we are still weathering the storm, we are also…

It’s now over a year since Scolmore Group launched its dedicated YouTube channel SGTV, and the mix of interviews, news and tutorials that are hosted has generated regular engagement and great reviews from electricians. Scolmore understand the time pressures that electricians face, now more than ever as they get back to working after the rigours of lockdown.  As a result we are now making some of the SGTV content available…