NSAR Workforce Data Collection
NSAR would like to offer you the opportunity to participate in our annual workforce survey. This will help us in updating and enhancing industry workforce information. In doing so, you…
The National Skills Academy for Rail
Introducing Routes into Rail
With billions of pounds being invested in rail over the next decade, the demand for the next generation of engineers, data analysts, project managers and customer service assistants has never been greater.
To highlight the wide range of exciting opportunities within rail, the sector has collaborated to create a new website, Routes into Rail.
View exciting opportunities within rail, view the latest vacancies & see what a career in rail really looks like. Think career, think rail.
NSAR 2020 Annual Report is available to download
Even against the backdrop of COVID-19, NSAR continued to build on the strong foundations laid in the previous year.
The Report a represent a culmination of the advocacy and activity that the rail industry can be proud of!
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Back on Track Report
New research by City & Guilds and NSAR paints a stark picture for the future of the rail workforce, with skills shortages set to escalate significantly in the sector over the next five years in the “Back on Track” report.
The report includes findings from research undertaken by YouGov and data from NSAR on 242,000 workers in the rail industry.
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Strategic Transport Apprenticeship Taskforce (STAT): Fourth Annual Report
The fourth Strategic Transport Apprenticeship Taskforce (STAT) Annual Report has been published.
With contributions from NSAR, the report marks the four-year milestone of the work STAT has done to deliver the Transport Infrastructure Skills Strategy.
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Former RIA Director General, Jeremy Candfield passes away
It is with great sadness that we inform you that former RIA Director General, Jeremy Candfield, passed away on Sunday 1st November 2020 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
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Transport Infrastructure Efficiency Strategy (TIES) Living Lab
A partnership between the UK Government, its agency Innovate UK and firms including Kier and Costain is an initiative harnessing the vast quantities of intelligence that UK infrastructure projects generate, that can help identify modern methods of construction. Click the button below to find out more.
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News & Events
Create an account on Routes into Rail
Create an account on Routes into Rail and get personalised recommendations on careers and vacancies in rail-based on your interests, as well as access to all our videos in your…
Government to cut £1bn from rail budget
The government has cut £1bn from the rail infrastructure budget following the chancellor’s Spending Review. The chancellor had previously promised record infrastructure investment as part of the government’s “levelling up”…
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