City of Westminster College’s new Achievement Measurement 2 (AM2) Centre has re-opened, providing a bespoke training facility on the Ground Floor of Paddington Green Campus with annual capacity for 140 electrical apprentices and trainees to take the AM2.

 

The AM2 is the practical competence assessment for electrical installation. It is a formal unit of the NVQ Level 3 Diploma, and a component of the national electrotechnical apprenticeship. As one of 43 licensed AM2 Assessment Centres in the UK, City of Westminster College provides training and testing to the College’s Level 3 students and also accepts candidates wishing to attend a convenient central London location for the three-day formal assessment.

 

Steven Thompson, AM2 Centre Manager, says: “Providing the AM2 assessment gives City of Westminster College the facility to verify the competency of our Electrical Installation students and others across the London and south-east region before they go out into the workplace as Electricians. We look forward to carrying out the assessments from our purpose-built facilities.”

Stephen Plant, NET Development Manager, adds: “We want to thank the staff at City of Westminster College for their enormous hard work and effort in launching their new AM2 Centre. We wish the very best to all involved, whether they are candidates, employers or centre personnel.”

 

AM2 - which is owned and run by industry charity National Electrotechnical Training (NET) - assesses competence against National occupational standards at a time when the work electricians do has become increasingly varied and technical. Its role is to demonstrate that a Level 3 apprentice or trainee is ready to enter the industry as a fully qualified Electrician.

 

City of Westminster College opened its first AM2 Centre in 2009 in its temporary accommodation in Paddington Basin. The new Centre was incorporated into the design of the £102-million Paddington Green Campus, which opened in January 2011.

 

Further information:

• City of Westminster College is a leading London further education college, operating from two Campuses in Central London and with a range of outreach facilities.
• The College offers over 250 vocational and academic courses to some 7,000 students each year. It is associate partner of Middlesex University and University of Westminster and a Founder College of the National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural Skills. It is also a Westminster Skillset Media Academy with the University of Westminster.
• With a long tradition of offering vocational training in central London, the College offers a full range of Building Services & Construction courses, ranging from entry-level qualifications to professional and refresher courses for practitioners in these vital industries.
• The AM2 Centre offers a three-day, industry recognised Practical Performance Assessment (PPA) Test. This is conducted under nationally set controlled conditions and with assessment by qualified and registered AM2 examiners. For more information about AM2, or to make a booking, call 020 7258 2903 or email am2@cwc.ac.uk.

• National Electrotechnical Training (NET) is a registered pan-UK industry training charity.
• NET owns and licenses the Assessment of Occupational Competence for the electrical installation industry, the Achievement Measurement 2 (AM2) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Final Integrated Competence Assessment (FICA) for Scotland.
• NET’s stakeholders are the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA), SELECT (the Scottish Electrical Contractors’ Association) and UNITE the Union.