UK Training Industry Press Releases

"Learners improve their employer's business and their own working environment"

Yorkshire Productivity, a division of Ilkley-based Virtual College, has delivered over 20,000 productivity improvement training programmes to more than 200 manufacturing companies across the north of England since it was formed in 1996.

To ensure it is providing a quality service, a cross-section of 12 of Yorkshire Productivity's manufacturing customers was visited as part of an independent Ofsted inspection. Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills) reports directly to Parliament. This independence means it can be relied upon for impartial information.

The Ofsted inspection judged that Yorkshire Productivity exhibited the following key strengths:

• High overall success rates
• Very good acquisition of social and workplace skills
• Good training and learning
• Good support for learners
• Strong strategic and operational management
• Particularly good partnership working