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logistics training specialist demand for its courses is rooming following the h of a new teaching od that even allows truck) receive tuition at motorervice stations. Kingswinford Industrial Training Centre (KITS) reports that more than 9,000 people have enrolled on its learndirect' system over the past year, compared with 900 in the previous six months.
Courses range from handling dangerous goods to the CPC. They are delivered from 1,500 centres around the country.
Michelle Babb, manager of learndirent at KITS, says one centre operates computer kiosks at six motorway service stations, allowing drivers to catch up on coursel,vork dur ing their rest breaks.
"The centres are also in cc leges, private companies and libraries," she adds. "People can also do the courses on computer at home. It is a flexible learning approach for people who can't fit in with the normal regime of going to college."
Some courses are free. KITS, which is partly owned by Stourbridge College in the West Midlands, was appointed as learndirect's transport and distribution specialist by the University for Industry. This was set up to provide vocational courses using similar methods to the Open University.