Search Results: 'Lantra'

New diploma to offer practical experience
26 October, 2007

Woodland show attracts thousands
28 September, 2007

Skills shortage unites Lantra and T&G
10 August, 2007

Lantra appoints new chairman
20 July, 2007

UKWoodchain clarifies timber training responsibility
07 July, 2007
UKWoodchain (UKW) has once more had to clarify that it is the body with responsibility for the development of skills training and performance in sawmilling and primary timber processing.

Forests favoured in Scotland
02 July, 2007
Forestry can help Scotland become “wealthier, greener, smarter, safer and healthier”, environment minister Michael Russell has said.

Working with wood is child's play
14 June, 2007
More than 100 teenagers have taken part in a Rural Skills Induction Day in Dingwall, Scotland, which aimed to give them experience of working in the timber and forestry sectors.

Award recognises apprentice skills
20 February, 2007
A Forestry Commission worker has scooped the title of Modern Apprentice of the Year at an awards ceremony organised by Lantra, the sector skills council for the land-based industries.

MP backs skills initiative
02 February, 2007
The environmental and land-based sector, which includes forestry, has been singled out as a major area for skills and training reform by chairman of the education select committee Barry Sheerman MP.

Skills body pledges support for migrant workers
08 January, 2007
Skills and training development body Lantra has pledged to support migrant workers in the forestry industry.