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Origination and Pre-press, Digital Label Printing, Environment and Sustainability, the History of the Label Industry. The first of these Modules are scheduled to be available later this year for purchase or downloading through a new Label Academy website that is currently being developed.
Over the coming months, a dedicated Advisory Panel will additionally be working on how best to establish an internet- based industry testing scheme and moving towards an industry-wide on-line certification process.
THE LABEL ACADEMY: A SUPPORTING RESOURCE FOR EXISTING EDUCATION SCHEMES
It is also planned that existing industry suppliers, associations, colleges, training and employer schemes and programmes will be able to apply to become accredited training organisations using the new learning modules. The Label Academy is not looking to take over or interfere with existing label industry training, but rather to become a resource provider and support body for the global label industry – with global resource material written for training providers to use in any country or market.
FINAT BOARD ENDORSEMENT
At the present time the proposed education and training resource being developed under the banner of The Label Academy has already been endorsed by the FINAT Board and is currently being studied by other label industry associations around the world.
WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE LABEL ACADEMY?
In planning for a number of years, the new label industry education and training scheme has been
developed and pioneered to-date by Mike Fairley, widely known as the label industry ‘Guru’. Perhaps not so widely known is that before founding Labels & Labelling he spent several years as a further education lecturer before joining PIRA, the Paper, Printing and Packaging Industry Research
Association as Deputy Head of Training. In this capacity he acquired extensive experience in lecturing and writing training manuals and materials on many areas of printing, papermaking, labels and packaging. He further developed his educational
credentials at the UK
Government sponsored Paper and Paper Products
Industry Training Board as Head of Information, and as a consultant to the International Labour Office, the Economist Intelligence Unit and to the EU.
Complementing Mike’s undoubted training and industry knowledge in writing the new e-learning Modules are a team
from 4impression (who wrote the FINAT Educational Handbook) under Paul Jarvis and Netherlands-based Converting Technology
International of Sietze de Kievit, who have been piloting training material and courses on label
substrates and tooling. They are also
members of the Academy’s Advisory
Panel. Other global specialists are likely
to be co-opted as required for specific subjects or markets.
OFFICIAL LAUNCH: LABELEXPO AMERICAS 2014
By the middle of 2014 the first results of the work that has been undertaken to-date and the first e-learning Modules to be produced will start to be announced and initial training and testing materials become available. The aim is to then have the official launch of The Label Academy at Labelexpo Americas in September.
It is certainly hoped that the global label industry will support this exciting new initiative and strive to produce the better- educated and trained employees who will be needed for the successful and long-term future of the industry.
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