Construction Apprentice Training in N Ireland

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Construction Apprentice Training in N Ireland

• Ronnie Laverty
• Northern Regional College
• Brian McMullen
• South Eastern Regional College

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Department of Employment and Learning
Training Programmes

• ApprenticeshipsNI
• Training for Success
• Competitive Tendering Process with Contracts
  Awarded for Sept 2008 start

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Competitive Tendering Process

• Tendering criteria
• Relevant experience of the organisation/partnershi
  p in successfully delivering services of a
  similar nature
• Methodology to deliver the services required
• Suitable resources in terms of staffing and
  premises to deliver the provision
• Contracts awarded to employer led bodies
• Electrical Installation (ETT)
• Plumbing Level 3 (PMST)
• Motor Vehicle (Carter and Carter)
• CITBNI are not a managing agent

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ApprenticeshipsNI

• Level 2 Apprenticeships
• Level 3 Apprenticeships
• Employed status

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ApprenticeshipsNI

• Preferred route for Apprenticeship training
• Duration for funding purposes
• Level 2 up to 130 weeks
• Level 3 up to 130 weeks
• Apprenticeship Frameworks include
• Technical certificate
• NVQ
• Essential Skills
• Employment rights and responsibilities

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Construction Funding Band 5
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Construction Funding Band 5
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Training for Success

• Skills for your Life
• Skills for Work
• Pre Apprenticeship
• (Programme Led Apprenticeship)
• All Non employed status

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Skills for your Life

• 52 weeks duration
• To prepare young adults for the world of work
• For school leavers with learning difficulties
• Sampling of different vocational areas
• Educational maintenance allowance of 40/week
  travel allowance

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Skills for Work

• 52 weeks or 156 weeks duration
• 21 hrs/week in house training
• Vocational qualification at Level 1
• Essential skills
• Employability
• Work placement, 1 day/week
• Educational maintenance allowance of 40/week
  travel allowance
• Progression to Pre apprenticeship or
  ApprenticeshipNI depending on employment

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Pre Apprenticeship

• 52 weeks duration
• 21 hrs/week in directed training
• Vocational qualification at Level 2
• Essential skills
• Employability
• Work placement
• Educational maintenance allowance of 40/week
  travel allowance
• Progression to Apprenticeship NI on employment

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Programme Led Apprenticeship

• Temporary replacement for Pre Apprenticeship
• 104 weeks duration
• 21 hrs/week in directed training
• Vocational qualifications at Level 2 including
  NVQ
• Essential skills
• Employability
• Work placement, 1 day/week
• Educational maintenance allowance of 40/week
  travel allowance

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Programme Led Apprenticeship

• Focus on Technical Certificate in year 1
• Achieve NVQ 2 in year 2
• Start Level 3 Tech Cert by week 78
• Provision in place for PLA year 3 to complete
  Level 3 Technical Certificate

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Construction Funding Band 5
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The Future

• Difficulty finding employment for Apprentices
• Difficulty finding work placements for Programme
  Led Apprentices
• PLAs Unable to complete NVQ resulting in
  potential loss of output related funding
• Retendering was due to commence March 2010
• Retendering likely to be postponed for one year
• No change to Apprenticeships NI
• Consultation on changes to Programme Led
  Apprenticeships