UVAC has launched a new UVAC Apprenticeship Construction & Built Environment (ACBE) Knowledge Network. The aim of the network is to bring together construction and built environment academic teams with their quality assurance and apprenticeships teams to share good practice, address challenges and seek to deliver innovative solutions to:

• Improve engagement with employers and the professional institutions
• Enhance routes to professional registration through professional practice and the transition to integrated assessment methodologies
• Raise achievements in relation to the suite of apprenticeships in the construction and built environment sector.

This will be done in collaboration with the professional institutions, the Construction Industry Council (CIC) and Construction Leadership Council (CLC), proving a forum to engage with and deliver elements of the national skills strategy, and built capacity and capability to deliver the competences essential to the future of this sector, including the Building Safety Act.

The ACBE Knowledge Network joins the suite of groups that seek to provide a collaborative forum for higher education (HE) practitioners, staff, and academics to collaborate and discuss apprenticeships, the HE skills landscape and other technical and professional qualifications.

This new network is supported by the Technical Apprenticeship Consortium (TAC), the Construction Industry Council (CIC), the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and the Joint Board of Moderators (JBM). It will draw on expertise from and partnerships with industry, the professions, the higher education sector and beyond to achieve these aims.

Please register for the online dates HERE

30th January 2025 online: 13.30pm- 15.30pm

2nd April 2025 – face to face Venue TBC: 9.30am – 16.30pm

2nd July 2025 online: 10.00am – 12.00pm