Press Release
The Gatwick Skills Centre’s ‘Landing Zone’ opens
27 March 2008
The Gatwick Skills Centre’s ‘Landing Zone’ opens
27 March 2008
The Gatwick Skills Centre’s ‘Landing Zone’ opened this week to provide an e-learning area in the South Terminal’s staff restaurant. The Landing Zone is the ‘shop window’ of the Gatwick Skills Centre which provides training and skills development for airport employees. The success of the centre led it to expand to provide staff with an area to search for airport jobs, catch up on training courses and get career advice and guidance during their breaks.
Central Sussex College runs the Gatwick Skills Centre and its Principal, Russell Strutt, was there to open the Landing Zone with BAA Gatwick’s Managing Director, Andy Flower. Mr Flower said: “Gatwick Airport is a people business relying on 25,000 members of staff. We will always reinvest in them to provide excellent training and career opportunities. The Landing Zone marks the first phase of the expansion of the Gatwick Skills Centre and is a great example of airport companies working together. It will capture the imagination of people who use it.” Dr Strutt added: “The Gatwick Skills Centre is a great example of a public and private sector partnership that effectively meets the skills needs of BAA and other airport businesses. As a college we are delighted to be involved and looking forward to creating new training opportunities as the centre expands. The new Landing Zone ‘shop window’ will really help to raise the profile of the centre amongst airport employees.”
The Gatwick Skills Centre provides training opportunities to deliver the best customer service skills across the airport community. The centre will move into larger premises in Ashdown House in the summer.
Media enquiries :
Andrew McCallum, Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Tel: +44 (0)7827 983965
Email: andrew.mccallum@gatwickairport.com
Notes to editors:
• The Gatwick Skills Centre opened in January 2006.
• The centre is a joint project between BAA Gatwick, Central Sussex College, JobCentre
Plus, Sussex Enterprise, West Sussex Economic Partnership, South East England
Development Agency (SEEDA) and Sussex Learning and Skills Council.
• The centre offers state of the art IT and e-learning facilities.
• Over 400 people from 100 airport companies have benefited from centre courses since
it opened.
