The first graduates from the Accelerated Trainer Academy (formerly the Spearhead Trainer Academy), are now delivering training on behalf of the ATLAS consortium to help it supply Increment 1 of the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) project. The DII(F) project is intended to replace numerous individual information systems throughout the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with a single, more efficient information infrastructure.
Jane McCarthy, who heads up the Accelerated Trainer Academy, commented: We are planning to enrol further intakes of students into the Academy over the next few months in order to fulfil the initial needs of the ATLAS consortium - which involves delivering training initially to over 600 secure installations in the UK.
The first part of the Academy course equips delegates with the skills required to deliver effective IT end-user training, covering course design and delivery, learning styles and lesson planning, she added. Throughout the course, delegates are given opportunities to practise their newly developed skills by delivering several ’mini-teach’ sessions, the content of which will contribute to the work-based evidence tasks required to achieve ITQ qualification later in the course.
Delegates are then coached through the ECDL syllabus with accredited testing and should achieve the ITQ Level 2 qualification on completion of the three-week programme. Before leaving the course, students develop a plan to help them achieve the ITQ Level 3 qualification and are offered coaching and support by our tutors to help them reach this goal, she said.
The Accelerated Trainer Academy has been accepted as a registered training provider for the Enhanced Learning Credits (ELC) scheme. Among other things, this means that the Academy can accept people leaving the British Armed Forces who are looking to establish a new career.
McCarthy commented: Among the first of the Academy graduates to deliver this training is a man who recently left the British Armed Forces and used his resettlement allowance to fund his course at the Academy.
All of the Academy’s successful candidates are supported and guided in how to start their own sustainable training business and given an opportunity to work on a major BroadSkill or Synergy IT training project with a leading global IT company.
’Proof of the pudding’ for new Academy
Accelerated Trainer Academy are now delivering training on behalf of the ATLAS consortium to help it supply Increment 1 of the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) project
