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Frank Higgins |
Project Director
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Transition Training
2nd Floor
Downshire House
Downshire Place
Great Victoria Street |
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Belfast |
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Co Antrim |
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BT2 7JQ |
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Northern Ireland |
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Frank Higgins has been appointed the project's consultant and liaises with all principle partners of the project to ensure the effective implementation of the project. Frank is also Chairman of the Steering Panel and is a sitting panel member of the Advisory Group.
Frank has also been co-opted to report to the Chairman and Board of Forward Learning on the projects progress.
Frank has had an extremely successful career within the training industry from both a training and development aspect, (where he won the National Training Award), and also as an evaluator/assessor, he holds the 'A' & 'V' units/awards
He has also won the National Training Awards twice, became a regional winner in 2004 with the Clonnard Kids Computer Project and a UK winner in 2000 with the Priority Skills Initiative.
Working within the motor vehicle industry Frank developed training programmes for Blackwater House, which proved so successful he then delivered them to garages in Dublin. Frank was an advisor to the sector skill council for the UK on the apprenticeship training programme and the re-skilling of adult learners.
He also set up evaluation systems and helped implement company policies and procedures for garages and Blackwater House.
Frank took these skills with him to Springvale Training Ltd when he joined them as a centre manager for ITxp in the Kennedy Centre.
Within 18 months there were an additional 2 centres and Frank was the Area Manager. He continued to grow the centres, developing new courses and generating additional income, taking them from the original "learndirect" centres to New Deal training facilities, providing IT training for long term unemployed and lone parents. He has also been involved in the design, implementation and successful management of several EU Funded projects.
Since setting up Transition Training, Frank has pioneered a new cultural diversity course, with a focus on Peace and Reconciliation.
This course has been so successful that it has been funded by Belfast City Council, CFNI, CRC, NcompasS and the Probation Board of Northern Ireland.
Frank is a volunteer Director of the Belfast Interface Project and is a consultant on community initiatives across Northern Ireland |
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