Specialising in plumbing, gas engineering, carpentry, electrical installation and property maintenance, you can train for a new career, recertify a qualification, or gain some DIY skills.
Our top of the range, brand new gas training and assessment centre contains all the facilities you need to gain the accreditation and certification you need to work as a domestic gas engineer.
The centre houses the type of industry-standard equipment that apprentices will find in the workplace, including a professional gas centre, electrical training bays for wiring regulation training and a large carpentry workshop.
Our brand new, first class facilities are complemented by highly experienced and inspirational tutors who are passionate about their area of expertise and wholeheartedly committed to supporting learners to achieve.
For employers: We work closely with employers of all sizes to ensure that the skills we are teaching are up to date and reflect those that are needed in your business. Whether you want to employ an apprentice or find a reliable and high quality training organisation to upskill or re-accredit existing staff members, then we can help.
For apprentices: If you want to develop a career in the construction sector, then our centre can help to connect you to some of the very best employers in Oxfordshire and beyond. Our award-winning apprenticeship team will support you throughout your apprenticeship and will help you to kick start a long-lasting career in your chosen industry.
For the community: Our centre also provides training for individuals who want to develop their own DIY skills, or who perhaps want to try something new before considering a change of career.
The course I'm studying feels like what a career would be like, challenging me and providing space for me to work in.
I remember turning up on the first day and I thought wow! The size of the construction building, the equipment we get to use – it's all helping me to reach my goal, which is to have my own workshop, making bespoke designs for customers.
I find that it never gets boring in the Skills Centre, learning joinery techniques and perfecting new skills - that's what I like most about the course, being in the amazing facilities.
The atmosphere is very relaxed here. You get freedom in the lessons and the fact that you're treated like an adult brings out the best in me. And because we are studying a specific subject that we’ve chosen, we aren’t doing anything that we don’t want to do!
I have a interest in woodwork and when I have completed the course, I would like to join the British Army Royal Engineers as a carpenter.
I had already heard about the great reputation of the College and the plumbing course. It’s a big campus and you can tell the Skills Centre we're learning in is new with modern tools and equipment.
The courses are very different to those at school. It’s much more hands-on and there's a lot more freedom. The tutors are easy to talk to and know their stuff.
This course is putting me on the right path to want I eventually want to do.
Carpenter
Architectural Joiner
Gas & Boiler Engineer
Plumber
Electrician
School Leaver XFBS000P
This is a practical, hands on course to enable you (you must be aged 16 – 24) to gain basic construction skills, to learn what it is like to work in the construction sector and to develop the employability skills you need to secure a job or an appren...
1st Aug 2020 - 31st Jul 2021
Monday to Friday
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsPart Time XSBR103P
This course will provide you with the certification you need to continue to work as a domestic gas engineer. Candidates must already hold the CCN1 certification to take this course.The course is 5 days in total. 2 and a half days training, and 2 and ...
10th May 2021 - 14th May 2021
Monday to Friday
Engineering
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsPart Time XSBR104P
This course will provide you with the certification you need to continue to work as a domestic gas engineer. Candidates must already hold the CCN1 certification to take this course.The course is 5 days in total. 2 and a half days training, and 2 and ...
7th Jun 2021 - 11th Jun 2021
Monday to Friday
Engineering
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsPart Time XSBR105P
This course will provide you with the certification you need to continue to work as a domestic gas engineer. Candidates must already hold the CCN1 certification to take this course.The course is 5 days in total. 2 and a half days training, and 2 and ...
26th Jul 2021 - 30th Jul 2021
Monday to Friday
Engineering
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsPart Time XSBR102P
This course will provide you with the certification you need to continue to work as a domestic gas engineer. Candidates must already hold the CCN1 certification to take this course.The course is 5 days in total. 2 and a half days training, and 2 and ...
12th Apr 2021 - 16th Apr 2021
Monday to Friday
Engineering
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsApprenticeship XMBS350P
Carpentry and Joinery apprentices typically either work on a construction site as a Site Carpenter or in a workshop as an Architectural Joiner. Separate information about site carpentry is also available....
1st Aug 2020 - 31st Jul 2021
Various
Apprentices
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsApprenticeship XMBS150P
Carpentry and Joinery apprentices typically either work on a construction site as a Site Carpenter or in a workshop as an Architectural Joiner. Separate information about architectural joinery is also available....
1st Aug 2020 - 31st Jul 2021
Various
Apprentices
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsApprenticeship XMBS300P
Carpentry and Joinery apprentices typically either work on a construction site as a Site Carpenter or in a workshop as an Architectural Joiner. Separate information about site carpentry is also available....
1st Aug 2020 - 31st Jul 2021
Various
Apprentices
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsApprenticeship XMBS200P
Property Maintenance Operatives optimise property condition and quality and ensure that buildings are kept in a safe working condition whilst providing a high level of satisfaction to customers....
1st Aug 2020 - 31st Jul 2021
Various
Apprentices
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsApprenticeship XMBS250P
Carpentry and Joinery apprentices typically either work on a construction site as a Site Carpenter or in a workshop as an Architectural Joiner. Separate information about architectural joinery is also available....
1st Aug 2020 - 31st Jul 2021
Various
Apprentices
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsApprenticeship XMBS050P
Gas engineering involves the safe installation, commission, decommission and the ongoing service and repair of gas appliances in either a domestic or non-domestic setting. Appliances can include central heating boilers, unvented hot water storage, co...
1st Aug 2020 - 31st Jul 2021
Various
Apprentices
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsApprenticeship XMBS100P
Plumbing and Domestic Heating Technicians plan, select, install, service, commission and maintain all aspects of plumbing and heating systems....
1st Aug 2020 - 31st Jul 2021
Various
Apprentices
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsPart Time XSBR112P
This course is designed to enable qualified gas engineers to add LPG gas to their existing natural gas qualifications. The course includes both practical and theory training in specific areas of LPG....
22nd Mar 2021 - 23rd Mar 2021
Mondays & Tuesdays
Engineering
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
View course detailsPart Time XSBR111P
This course will enable candidates to install, commission, repair and maintain domestic unvented hot water cylinders to comply with building regulations and standards....
7th Apr 2021 - 7th Apr 2021
Monday to Friday
Engineering
Bicester Construction Skills Centre
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