John Thedham News Today

In Furness College’s building workshops in January 1993 a class of eager South Walney Infants school children were getting to grips with bricks, mortar and theodolites. It was all part of a new initiative from the Construction Industry Training Board to set up 50 ‘curriculum centres’ across the country. At the centres, funded by the industry’s training levy and with money from local training and enterprise councils, pupils and teachers had access to equipment and resources no sing...