• IMI Skills Competition winners announced
    • 30/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories: Featured, News
    The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has announced the winners of its 2023 Skills Competition. The event attracted more than 600 nominations, making the 2023 competition the most intense yet, before 23 winners and runners-up were chosen across four categories: Light Vehicle Technology, Body Repair, [...]
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  • SYNETIQ develops dedicated leadership programme
    • 29/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    SYNETIQ, an IAA company, has introduced its first Leadership and Development Programme to help reduce the growing skills gap. This comes after the Department of Education’s Employee Skills Survey revealed an increasing skills gap within the UK in comparison to previous years. The report also revealed a decrease [...]
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  • Intelligent Motoring appoints new development director
    • 28/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Intelligent Motoring has appointed Mike Williams as head of business development. He joins the leadership team with a dedicated focus on developing wider relationships between Intelligent Motoring and automotive OEMs, independent and dealer groups, and motoring organisations. Williams said: “It is a really [...]
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  • Repairify expands technical team
    • 27/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Following the creation of its Luton-based technical centre of excellence in November 2022, Repairify is expanding its workshop operation with the appointment of two new technicians to meet the growing demand for electric repairs and training. Richard Davis and Toby Anderson have both joined the site, while lead [...]
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  • Steer Group set for significant apprenticeship growth
    • 24/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories: Featured, News
    Steer Automotive Group will significantly grow its apprenticeship programme next year, with an aim for apprentices to make up 16% of its technical workforce by the end of 2024. This comes after a report by the Institute for the Motor Industry warned there would be 160,000 vacancies in the sector by 2031. Steer [...]
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  • DLG secures IMI approval
    • 22/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Direct Line Group has received IMI training accreditation, meaning it can now design and deliver certified training programmes in-house. This will enable it to identify current and emerging skills gaps and develop appropriate learning solutions for its own colleagues and third party repairer networks. As an [...]
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  • Tyreoo unveils new mobile ADAS service
    • 17/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Lancashire-based Tyreoo has expanded its services by launching a mobile ADAS radar calibration service. Managing director Azhar Iqbal has employed a team of six IMI-qualified technicians to deliver the service to customers in the region and is now recruiting further to support growing demand, with training provided [...]
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  • John Clark Motor Group reveals Elite apprenticeship plan
    • 16/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories: Featured, News
    Scotland-based dealership John Clark Motor Group is working with Elite Training and Consultancy to develop IT apprentices to support the group’s continued growth. John Clark comprises 38 businesses, including five bodyshops, with an annual turnover of more than £914m and more than 1,300 colleagues, 127 of whom [...]
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  • IMI taps into Chinese skills base
    • 07/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The IMI has established a dedicated team in Shanghai with the long-term aim of easing the skills shortage in the UK automotive sector. It has worked on a project with the UK Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and China Government to train teachers and students. Meanwhile, the IMI also took part in the UK [...]
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  • IMI identifies 18,000-technician ADAS skills gap
    • 03/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) estimates that at least one in 10 cars on UK roads will feature Level 2 autonomy by the end of this year, and that will grow to almost half of the car parc by 2030. However, according to its latest data there are currently only around 3,500 ADAS-qualified technicians in the [...]
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