AIM strengthens retrofit sector partnership with qualifications expansion

AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group has strengthened its offering through a partnership with The Retrofit Academy (TRA).

The Retrofit Academy (TRA) will bring all regulated qualifications under one awarding organisation as part of an ambitious strategy to set the benchmark for competence, capability and career progression across the UK retrofit profession.

The move brings TRA’s full regulated qualifications portfolio together with AIM, an Ofqual-regulated, award-winning, not-for-profit awarding organisation.

Together, TRA and AIM share an ambition to lead the regulated retrofit qualifications space: creating a coherent, trusted framework that supports people from their first step into the sector through to advanced and specialist roles.

The move will also develop competence with the combination of knowledge, practical capability, professional judgement and behaviours needed to deliver safe, effective and high-quality retrofit.

By aligning qualifications around the needs of the sector, the partnership will help ensure that learning translates into real-world capability.

TRA’s regulated qualifications support key roles across the retrofit career pathway, including retrofit designer, advisor, assessor & coordinator.

David Pierpoint, TRA’s chief executive, said: “At The Retrofit Academy, we are proud to be Champions of Competence. This partnership is about more than delivering qualifications or meeting mandatory requirements.

“It is about creating a genuine culture of lifelong learning, raising competence across the workforce and supply chain, and providing people with clear pathways into rewarding and sustainable careers.

“Retrofit will only succeed at scale if quality and competence are built in from the outset. Bringing all of our regulated qualifications under AIM creates greater clarity and consistency for learners and their employers, while giving us a strong platform from which to raise standards across the profession.

“TRA lead the regulated retrofit qualifications space, but this is about far more than compliance. It is about understanding what true competence looks like, building clear career pathways and ensuring the profession has the knowledge, capability and confidence required to deliver high-quality retrofit now and in the future. Together with AIM, we are raising the bar and helping to build a profession that people can trust.”

Kevern Kerswell, group chief executive officer at AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group, said: “AIM is proud to deepen its partnership with The Retrofit Academy and to become the awarding organisation for its complete suite of regulated qualifications.

“TRA brings unrivalled specialist insight and expertise into the needs of the retrofit sector, while AIM brings rigorous qualification development, regulation and quality assurance.

“Together, we can develop qualifications that do more than demonstrate compliance. They will support genuine competence, meaningful progression and clear career pathways, helping learners build rewarding careers and giving employers confidence that their people have the capabilities the sector needs.”

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