Innovation - training and education
Higher standards
Not content with training bus drivers to just the standard PCV programme, Metroline aims to add additional components such as:
- customer relations training
- disability equality
- accident awarenes
- extra numeracy skills
The Driver CPC License is part of this objective.
Learning on the Move
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Launched in 1998, Learning on the Move is a fantastic example of Metroline’s educational commitment to all of its employees and indeed their families. The free adult learning courses teach employees and their families computing skills as well as offering Literacy and Numeracy qualifications.
The adult learning programme also represents a partnership between
- Metroline
- Unite
- TUC (Trade Union Congress)
- CoNEL (College of North East London)
with support from TfL (Transport for London), Sfl and Company Suppliers.
As one of the very first businesses in the transport field to invest in their employees in this way, Metroline turned a previous standard passenger vehicle into a state of the art mobile classroom. Each course is accredited by the national Open College Network, the UK’s foremost provider of adult learning services and has helped over 2,000 Metroline workers and family members achieve accreditations.
In the last year alone, the Learning on the Move initiative has visited Prime Minster, Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street and had one of the founders of the scheme, Tom O’Callaghan named in the New Year Honours List 2009, receiving an MBE for ‘services to lifelong learning in the transport industry.’