Course and CITB test the same day, in the same location
The classroom stays exactly as it is. The academy is what happens on the other six days: revision before the test, refreshers that would otherwise walk away, and inductions done before anyone reaches the gate.
Why bother
That is the ceiling. Every course is capped at eight because that cap is the reason the pass rate is 98%, so growth cannot come from cramming more chairs in.
The academy lifts the ceiling without touching what works. Revision, refreshers and inductions run themselves, while the classroom stays small, personal and exactly as good as it is now.
An annual asbestos refresh is either half a day you have to fill or a sale you lose. Online it is neither.
The revision is already why people pass. As a proper course, it is part of what the £250 obviously buys.
A dashboard, a training matrix and expiry reminders are worth paying for every month, not once a year.
Friday is already full at eight people. The academy takes bookings while you are stood in front of a room.
What's in it
The CITB refresher is built and running today. The rest follow in the order employers keep asking for them.
The full refresher, rebuilt as animated modules with a practice question round after each one. Learners work through it before their test day, as many times as they like.
Completion certificate, valid 12 months
Pairs with Premium Card Package
The annual refresh that HSE guidance expects, done online instead of pulling a maintenance team off the job for half a day.
Annual refresher certificate
Pairs with Asbestos Awareness
Ladders, towers, harnesses and pre-use checks, with an equipment inspection walkthrough learners can rewatch on site.
Annual refresher certificate
Pairs with Working at Height
A contractor's own induction, delivered online before anyone reaches the gate. Signed off digitally, so the gatehouse sees who is cleared.
The one every employer asks for and nobody wants to sit a whole day for.
How it fits together
This is not a replacement for the classroom. It is the thing that wraps around it, before and after.
Same as now. Friday in Hull, or whichever date suits, booked on this site in two minutes.
Their account is created on booking, and the refresher is waiting. They can work through it on the sofa, in the van, or at six in the morning before a shift.
You are not starting from scratch at half past eight. The conversation starts higher up, which is exactly what keeps a small group moving.
Six months later, when they have forgotten what the hierarchy of control was, it is still there. So is next year's refresher, ready to sell.
For employers
Every classroom certificate and every online completion lands in the same place. When a principal contractor asks who is cleared for what, it is one screen rather than an afternoon in an inbox.
One website
Learners should never know they have crossed from the website into the academy, because as far as they are concerned they haven't.
The academy sits on learn.ptsy.co.uk with the Pathways header, logo and colours. To a learner it is the same website, not a third-party portal they have been dumped into.
Someone books a Friday course on the site, and their academy account is created in the same moment. The revision material is in their inbox before they have put their phone down.
Classroom pages point at the online refresher, online modules point back at the classroom date. Nothing is a dead end.
Classroom certificates and online completions land in the same learner record, so an employer chasing a training matrix has one place to look instead of an inbox.
Where it lives. The academy runs today at pathways.learn.squideo.com. Pointing it at learn.ptsy.co.uk is a DNS change and an afternoon of branding, after which it is entirely yours.
The CITB refresher is built and running. Open it, click through a module, and see whether it feels like Pathways.
