The company is able to provide the following bespoke services to organisations, the public sector, educational services, universities, polytechnics, colleges and schools.

The director is able to draw on considerable personal experience as well as that of highly qualified colleagues:

• Provision of project management services in strategic academic and vocational educational programmes.

The director is used to providing bespoke project management services in the design and implementation of national or sector specific academic and vocational educational projects. The projects successfully delivered have ranged up to $1m in value and up to 3 years duration. 

• Design of academic and vocational qualifications and associated curricula

Skills4Real is able to design and implement innovative academic and vocational qualifications at secondary and tertiary levels whose curricula are able to take advantage of real  and contemporary work problems and experiential learning environments.

• Development of closer industry education links

The company is currently identifying ways in which closer practical industry education links can be formed and sustained. This is particularly relevant to the new 14-19 UK qualifications and the school plus initiative in NZ. Watch out for more details soon.

• Analysis of  sector and organisational work roles and skill sets

Skills4Real is able to provide an innovative and stable analysis of organisational  work roles and related skill sets. This  enables organisations to gain maximum utility from their current staff asset base as well as to ensure optimum flexibility of response to a continuously changing  business environment. 

• Development of performance and vocational standards

The company is able to provide analysis and design of  stable sets of functionally derived performance/vocational  standards that include practically assessable perfomance criteria, pre requisite knowledge, ranges of applicability and behavioural  expectations. 

• Design of vocational training programmes

Skills4Real is able to provide practical and innovative vocational training programes in which maximum advantage is taken of  the real working environment to motivate learners to achieve expected performance levels faster and more efficiently.