Sentences with phrase «quality apprenticeship»

A good quality apprenticeship is worth every second of your time and can even fund your aspirations of university study.

Skills minister Nick Boles said: «Putting an end to poor quality apprenticeship training lies at the heart of our reforms of apprenticeships.

The funding will be used to support and encourage the growth of apprenticeships and is part of the government's wider aim to achieve three million high quality apprenticeship starts by 2020.

The investment announced today will ensure that all businesses are able to benefit from high - quality apprenticeship training provision.»

Labour proposed an apprenticeship guarantee, by which every school leaver who gets the grades would be able to begin a high - quality apprenticeship.

The metro mayor will need to set the agenda on this, convening the business community, universities and skills providers, and highlighting the importance of high quality apprenticeships for residents and businesses, as well as matching apprenticeships with businesses from different areas of the city region.

That means providing high quality apprenticeships and working with the education system to provide good quality work experience.»

The report, launched by social mobility tsar Alan Milburn, includes a call for the government to commit to end youth unemployment by 2020, with greater provision of quality apprenticeships, and points out that the professions are set to expand dramatically.

Commenting on the discussion, Nick Boles MP said: «High quality apprenticeships are vital for attracting talented people to join the construction industry and ensuring the sector has the skills it needs to boost productivity.

Sue Husband, director of the National Apprenticeship, said: «Good quality apprenticeships offer a fantastic way for many young people to earn as they learn whilst providing employers with the skills they need for their business.»

Parents are often astonished when they realise companies such as Airbus, BBC, National Grid and GCHQ offer high quality apprenticeships which remove the burden of university fees and lead to great careers.

It is hoped that the levy will provide a huge boost to training and development by encouraging employers to invest in high - quality apprenticeships and giving young people a chance to reach their full potential.

«The contributors are all keen to support and extend high - quality apprenticeships.

«Alongside this, businesses have a key role to play in improving every school across the country through joining governing bodies, offering clear routes to high - quality apprenticeships, careers advice and work experience, regardless of a young person's background or where they live.»

Bousted told the Commons sub-Committee on education, skills and the economy that there were few quality apprenticeships and that employers needed to provide more work experience to young people.

However, the supply of high quality apprenticeships at level 3 is not yet meeting demand.

In our experience, what can come as a shock to the system for some employers is the quality assurance policies and processes required to deliver high quality apprenticeships which far outweigh the quality assurance requirements for short, sharp training interventions for in - house activity.

«We will bring about the progressive restoration of free education for all; and guarantee quality apprenticeships and adult skills training.»

Details on how millions of top - quality apprenticeships will be delivered over the next three years have been revealed today as the Institute for Apprenticeships sets out its operational plan.

-- Continue to replace lower - level classroom - based FE courses with high - quality apprenticeships.

The Government should ensure that all of the apprenticeship levy is used to fund high quality apprenticeships.

But while the government is pushing hard to promote high - quality apprenticeships, firms and individuals face a challenge.

The group is calling on employers to do more still to help young people make the transition into work but wants action from the government too, particularly on providing higher quality careers guidance and more high - quality apprenticeships.

Not exact matches

She'd undergone a decade - long apprenticeship at Linamar, the auto - parts manufacturing company Frank founded in Guelph, Ont., in the 1960s, starting as a lathe operator and moving through accounting, quality control and factory management, among other functions.

The land of engineering: The phrase «German engineering» has become synonymous with quality cars, but now the term is used more broadly, as people head to the country for a chance to win a key apprenticeship.

Use and invest in high quality pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs that create new pathways for underrepresented workers such as women and people of color;

«Properly accredited and approved engineering apprenticeship schemes provide a high - quality alternative to traditional academic routes.

The focus on high - quality, putting control of standards and proceeds from the Levy in the hands of employers — particularly building on the already - successful Trailblazer groups — and the recognition that more expensive apprenticeship programmes like those in aerospace will require more funding are to be welcomed.

But further efforts are needed to improve the quality of apprenticeships as there are fewer schemes that offer «advanced» and «higher» apprenticeships compared with the more typical intermediate apprenticeships.

«However, this year alone, at least 200,000 applicants will miss out on a university place or a high quality work - based apprenticeship as a result of the Coalition Government's swingeing cuts.

We need many more high quality workplace - based apprenticeships, all of them paying at least the minimum wage and which lead to guaranteed employment on completion.

Miliband, speaking at Jaguar Land Rover in Wolverhampton, also offered employers more control over how the government spends the near - # 1bn - a-year apprenticeship budget, in return for guaranteeing more high - quality training places in their sectors and supply chains.

We need many more high quality workplace - based apprenticeships, all of them paying at least the living wage and which lead to guaranteed employment on completion.

Andrew Bridgen highlights the importance of raising the quality of apprenticeships and welcomes the good progress being made in this area.

You need high - quality career and technical education, ideally the kind that combines rigorous coursework with a real - world apprenticeship, and maybe even a paycheck.

While moves to reform apprenticeships are welcome, the emphasis has to be on quality rather than achieving volume targets - with the right QA in place those with responsibility for apprenticeships» delivery and assessment can monitor and track the success or otherwise of programmes from the start to finish.

FOR any employer delivered training, measurement and accountability has to be a given, says Louise Doyle, director at online quality improvement specialists MESMA, who welcomes apprenticeship reform but wants to see greater clarity surrounding external quality assurance measures.

On apprenticeships, Neil said: «With the clock counting down to the start of the apprenticeship levy companies across the country are concerned about whether the system is ready to deliver what business and apprentices need — high - quality training that leads to a good career.

There appears to be strong demand for quality student talent with 74 % of employers confirming that their apprenticeships will not impact graduate hiring this year.

Using the MESMA platform, which enables key elements of the self - assessment and improvement planning process to be allocated to authorised people to boost quality assurance, Reform enables the user to assess how well prepared they are for the apprenticeship reforms against a diagnostic framework.

The quality of the apprenticeships varied considerably.

In contrast, the weakest apprenticeships provided too little high - quality training and so failed to prepare the apprentices for sustained employment in their chosen industry.

The government's apprenticeship reforms have been through an often tricky five - year period of gestation but we are now seeing numbers increase with accompanying improvements in the quality of the training.

It will launch in September next year and will mirror entry criteria and high - quality course content currently required of all other teacher trainees and will give schools across the country the opportunity to use the apprenticeship to recruit and train new teachers in - house.

The IFA is a new independent body led by employers that aims to ensure the quality of apprenticeships in England and Lauener will supported by Michael Keoghan, currently director of further education at the DfE, who is being appointed as the deputy CEO.

Much as lawyers and doctors ensure quality within their professions through bar examinations and board certification, the AFT and the NEA call for higher certification standards for new teachers (but rarely for current teachers), apprenticeships, peer review, and rewards for teachers who earn additional credentials, such as National Board certification.

«The government needs to increase the quality of apprenticeships on offer to young people and make sure that every apprenticeship offers a genuine route to success.»

Lewis Freer, Deputy Head of the 14 + Apprenticeship Academy, said: «We're extremely proud of the Year 11 students, particularly Bethany and Elliot, who showed true leadership qualities since the planning stages back in October.

Speaking at a press conference, Bousted said the employers» group involved in developing the new apprenticeship had been unable to answer her organisation's «basic questions» around pay, training quality and teaching time, and said the new programme had not been adequately thought - through.

David, who was at the heart of designing, establishing and running the National Apprenticeship Service between 2009 and 2013, calls for a greater focus on the quality as well as quantity of apprentices going forward.