{"id":159929,"date":"2026-03-05T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=159929"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:17:13","slug":"citb-celebrates-scottish-apprenticeship-week-at-national-construction-college-with-minister-for-higher-and-further-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/citb-celebrates-scottish-apprenticeship-week-at-national-construction-college-with-minister-for-higher-and-further-education\/159929\/","title":{"rendered":"CITB celebrates Scottish Apprenticeship Week at National Construction College with Minister for Higher and Further Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>This week (2 \u2013 6 March 2026) marks Scottish Apprenticeship Week, and the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) celebrated by welcoming Ben Macpherson MSP, Minister for Higher and Further Education, to its National Construction College (NCC) in Inchinnan, Renfrew<\/h2>\n<p>To mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week, the Minister toured the NCC, seeing an array of apprentices in action and discussing their experiences with them.<\/p>\n<p>He met some of the 1,500 apprentices CITB helps recruit annually in Scotland, seeing the training they undertake first hand to learn skills for life. To help employers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/support-for-recruiting-and-retaining-apprentices\/147879\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recruit apprentices<\/a>, CITB provided over \u00a322m in apprenticeship grants in the 2024-25 financial year.<\/p>\n<p>CITB\u2019s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/cwo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Construction Workforce Outlook<\/a> report found that the Scottish construction industry needs nearly 18,000 extra workers between 2025 and 2029. Statistics from Skills Development Scotland also show that over 6,500 people started a construction apprenticeship in Scotland in the 2024-25 financial year.<\/p>\n<h4>Ben Macpherson MSP, minister for higher and further education, said:<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cIt was\u202fgreat to visit the National Construction College to see first-hand the high-quality training CITB provides to apprentices from across Scotland. It is undoubtedly clear that construction apprenticeships are so important, both now and for the future \u2013 to Scotland\u2019s housing provision, building quality, national infrastructure, and\u202ftransition to net zero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scottish Government is investing \u00a3198m in apprenticeships this year, which is helping to support organisations like the CITB and NCC. This investment\u202fwill help to ensure that young people are equipped with skills for life and\u202fthat we build the workforce that Scotland needs for a sustainable and prosperous future.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Kirsty Evans, executive director, education and training at CITB, said:<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cWith nearly 13,000 construction businesses in Scotland employing over 200,000 people, the construction industry plays a vital role in the Scottish economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was wonderful that the Minister was able to visit the NCC in Scotland to meet many of the apprentices we support and see first-hand the high-quality training they receive to learn skills for life.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Ian Hughes, engagement director (Scotland), at CITB, said:<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cWith so many courses on offer at NCC Inchinnan, there\u2019s no better place in Scotland for apprentices to get trained, and the Minister got to see many of them in action. It was a great way to celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We offer plenty of support to help employers navigate the skills system, including our New Entrant Support Team, which makes finding, recruiting and retaining an apprentice or new entrant easier. So, we encourage Scottish construction employers to get in touch with us about how we can support them and their training and skills needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out more about CITB\u2019s New Entrant Support Team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/courses-and-qualifications\/citb-apprenticeships\/take-on-an-apprentice\/new-entrant-support-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week (2 \u2013 6 March 2026) marks Scottish Apprenticeship Week, and the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) celebrated by welcoming Ben Macpherson MSP, Minister for Higher and Further Education, to its National Construction College (NCC) in Inchinnan, Renfrew. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":159939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[547,172727,172848,592,596],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172982],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-159929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hr-skills-news","8":"tag-apprenticeship","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-skills","12":"tag-training","13":"stakeholder_rel_tag-citb"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CITB celebrates Scottish Apprenticeship Week at National Construction College with Minister for Higher and Further Education<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week, the CITB welcomed education minister Ben Macpherson MSP to its National Construction College in Renfrew\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/citb-celebrates-scottish-apprenticeship-week-at-national-construction-college-with-minister-for-higher-and-further-education\/159929\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CITB celebrates Scottish Apprenticeship Week at National Construction College with Minister for Higher and Further Education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week, the CITB welcomed education minister Ben Macpherson MSP to its National Construction College in Renfrew\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/citb-celebrates-scottish-apprenticeship-week-at-national-construction-college-with-minister-for-higher-and-further-education\/159929\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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