The charity has 6,514 volunteers signed up to go into schools to talk about their experience of apprenticeships and, so far, has trained 2,863 teachers to talk to
their students about apprenticeships.
Not exact matches
The report, funded by the Commercial Education Trust, revealed that the negative perceptions around
apprenticeships among
students, teachers and parents hampers take - up and highlights how more needs to be done to ensure equal guidance for both academic and vocational pathways and challenge views
about the suitability of different
apprenticeships across genders.
Students are given little or no information
about apprenticeships, let alone
about the growing number of digital
apprenticeships.
1pg activity worksheet guides
students into engaging with profiles and thinking
about future
apprenticeship / further education / higher education options.
Advisers have been talking to callers
about re-sits and retakes, gap years, Clearing, Adjustment,
apprenticeships, funding and
student accommodation.
To help teaching staff and advisers explore university, college, work,
apprenticeships, and other choices, and to advise their
students about contemporary choices, UCAS is running a pair of free online courses: one for teachers and advisers, followed by an accompanying course for their
students.
Citizen Schools utilizes a combination of during - the - school - day support that allows a school - based Citizen Schools team to become an integral part of the school community, as well as an out of school
apprenticeship model where
students work side by side with volunteers from the community who teach courses they are passionate
about, exposing them to future career pathways.
Because the snapshots show that only 52 percent of
students report that they care
about doing well in school, ASCD also recommends that schools increase
student engagement by offering them an array of extended - day learning activities, and academic credit for internships, service learning and
apprenticeships.
Because the university programs were not seen by prospective
students as useful training for the practice of law, they lost out to the more practical pathways of
apprenticeship and private law schools.85 Only later, when they married the theoretical and the practical instruction, including the teaching of writing and speaking
about the law, would university programs rise to become the dominant force in legal education.86
In my own research on legal education, I demonstrated that a key shortcoming of the traditional intellectual
apprenticeship lies precisely when
students start to think
about the contexts of law cases in complicated ways.
Almost three quarters of
students would consider an
apprenticeship, yet 80 % know little or nothing
about them, according to the latest research from QA
Apprenticeships.
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