Last week, plumbing trainee and student blogger Cliff Raw wrote a diary detailing his first week of practical training for his Train4TradeSkills course. Read the rest of Cliff’s diary and look at his photos of practical training on his blog at www.plumbing-student.blogspot.com. Everyone is putting notes into our water regs manual as the exam is open book so we can take the manual into the exam, even with taken into consideration the whole of the group are stressed, we need 80% to pass but if anyone gets less than 70% then you cannot resit in the same week. Related articles. MORE >>

In their latest financial figures, Mitie have announced profits of 9%, a 10% increase in turnover and a huge order book for 2011/12. Mitie’s order book is at a record high, and they have already secured £6.8 construction jobs construction news Electrical News electrician jobs plumbing jobs Plumbing News train4tradeskills Balfour Beatty construction construction jobs mitie Galliford Try Mitie Mitie Group order book t4ts train 4 trade skillsConstruction giants Mitie are one of the companies flourishing in the recession and have announced big profits in the last year. MORE >>

Daniel Miller is training to be an electrician with Train4TradeSkills and is one of our Bright Sparks bloggers. have also been in touch with Train4TradeSkills to organise my practical training, so just in the process of sorting that out now. will be glad to get them under my belt so to speak, and being able to put into practice what I have learnt in the text books. am pleasantly surprised how much I’ve retained which is good, there just a few area’s I need to revisit. As I mentioned previously I have a study plan for each week, which helps me to keep on track. MORE >>

Cliff Raw is training to become a plumber with Train4TradeSkills and is one of our student bloggers. After completing his first two weeks of practical training ( read Cliff’s excellent two-part diary of his training here ), Cliff updates us all about how his course is going. Here’s Cliff’s latest blog: Well its been a busy week with me feeling very enthused after my two week practical training in Featherstone. am straight back into my books and have completed modules 20-22. You can also follow Cliff on Twitter at www.twitter.com/crawtec. MORE >>

Thursday, March 3, 2011 Earth Eco Libris Campaign For those who participated in the Green Book Day, EcoLibris Campaign they are gearing up another for Earth Day. EcoLibris wants to hear what readers think about it and why they believe planting trees for their books is a good idea, and so for 41 days, beginning on March 13 and continuing through April 22 (Earth Day) they will publish on their blog 41 of the best replies well get, one reply every day! The information regarding the 41 Reasons for Planting a Tree for Your Book. Greenwash/ Bullshit Free Zone. Superb! MORE >>