Apprenticeships

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Apprenticeships

• Trransforming the future

Clare Bonson
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Contents

• Why Apprenticeships?
• The policy context
• Recent progress
• The future direction
• Higher Apprenticeships

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Why Apprenticeships?

• Learning through practise alongside and under
  the guidance of an expert practitioner is the
  most effective way to transmit professional
  experience and skills from one generation to the
  next
• Dr Nyahn rediscovering apprenticeships
  Springer 2009

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Recent Progress

• The size of the programme continues to grow
  strongly
• 442,700 starts in 2010/11
• All apprentices now have an employer1 and receive
  a wage
• All age programme, covers a wide range of
  industries and job roles
• Available to new workers and existing employees
• Employer and learner satisfaction with their
  experience is improving2
• SASE brings in a minimum standard for
  Apprenticeships in England
• Online Apprenticeship Vacancies service makes
  application and recruitment easy
• Access to Apprenticeships New Pathway

1 Except for agreed alternatives see 2011/12
Apprenticeship Funding Requirements 2According to
Framework for Excellence survey results
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Government Policy Updates The Skills Strategy

• Minister of State for Further Education, Skills
  and Lifelong Learning John Hayes MP launched
  Skills Strategy in October 2010
• Our overall intention is to boost the supply of
  genuine, high quality, employer-owned
  Apprenticeship places at Level 3
• Refresh due shortly
• Apprenticeships strengthened as main element of
  Skills policy
• Growth in Advanced and Higher levels prioritised

31 December 2013
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Government Policy Updates Plan for growth

• Launched at the Budget in March 2011
• Focus on key sectors including Advanced
  Manufacturing, Creative and Digital economies and
  Life Sciences
• A new STEM focus
• NEETs an additional 10,000 starts for (18-24)
  job seekers each year
• Higher Apprenticeships a development fund
  launched in July to generate 10,000 additional
  places by 2015

31 December 2013
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What is an Apprenticeship?

• Apprenticeships are frameworks of nationally
  recognised qualifications that offer a mixture of
  work based training and education.
• An apprentice
• Is an employee earning a wage
• Works alongside experienced staff to gain job
  specific skills
• Receives training to work towards the
  qualifications in their framework which
  includes
• Theoretical knowledge understanding the
  vocational area and subject theory
• Competence assessment that they can perform the
  core job tasks well and consistently
• Transferable skills (English, Maths and option
  for ICT)
• Personal learning and thinking skills (PLTS)
  learning to learn and work in teams
• Employee rights and responsibilities (ERR) what
  does it mean to be an employee?
• Training can be undertaken on a day release basis
  or be delivered on-site by a college or a private
  training provider.

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The Higher Apprenticeship Ambition

• Where are we?
• The plan for growth sustainable, long-term
  economic growth
• 25 million Higher Apprenticeship programme
  launched
• Ambition for 10,000 additional Higher
  Apprenticeship places
• Increasing growth in participation
• Currently 9 Higher Level frameworks (L4 L5)
• 2,100 starts 2010/11

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The Higher Apprenticeship Ambition

• More frameworks
• Employer demand and engagement / involvement
• Strong progression routes
• New entry routes to industry or profession
• Value for money
• Sustainable
• Collaboration
• TRANSFORMATION!!

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The Higher Apprenticeship Ambition

• Transformation of the sector
• Transformation of career pathways
• Transformation of progression pathways
• Transformation of perceptions
• Transformation of entry points

Transformation of the higher level skills base in
England