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Higher Apprenticeships In Practice
29 January 2015
Name: Mark Donnelly
Title: Head of Apprentice and Skills Training
Organisation: BAE Systems
Our higher apprenticeship
programme
Programme Summary
Benefits to our Business
•Current volume on contract – 96
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Early careers pipeline into our business
•Our Higher Apprenticeship programme
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Targets a recruitment of talent - gap
evolved from our Project Control Foundation
between the GCSE level apprentices and
Scheme (PCFS) that started in 2007
graduates.
•The first cohort of learners started on a HA
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programme in Sept 2012
Honours degree programme to attract the
highest calibre individuals
•We worked in collaboration with Blackpool
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Grow our own talent,
and The Fylde College and Lancaster
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Reduce high recruitment costs
University to devise the programme
How our partnership works
Expectations and
Arrangements
•Recruiting the correct calibre of talent
Benefits and Wider
Opportunities for HEIs
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employers
via our robust process
•The individuals rotate around a range
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Universities
appreciation of the business
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skills/knowledge
Devising Bespoke training
requirements
individuals add great value and hit the
ground running with necessary
Sharing of best practices and
benchmarking with other
of various functions to gain a good
•On completion of the programme
Working in collaboration with
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Developing of Trailblazers (new
Standards)
Delivery Realities
Delivery Challenges
How These Were Resolved
•Higher apprentices were new with
•Working with SSCs, Awarding bodies
minimum frameworks developed
& HEIs to devise appropriate framework
•Sourcing HEIs who were interested in
•Due diligence process to engage with
expanding their delivery options to HA
the HEIs who were willing to commit to
schemes
deliver
•Getting all key stakeholders buy-in and •Regular dialogue and meetings to
commitment
agree ownership
The Future
What is Planned ?
What the Learners say:
•Expanding HAs into other
“This opportunity came up and gave
discipline areas
me the best of both worlds -
•HA is one of our growth areas,
learning, work experience and
increasing numbers
studying for a degree too. It was one
•First cohort of the new Aerospace
of the best moves I’ve ever made.”
Trailblazing Apprenticeship
Standards for Sept 2015
•Replicating similar schemes in
Scotland
Catherine Christian
Higher Apprentice
at MA & I
Questions
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Do the current Higher Apprenticeship programmes meet the needs of
our business ?
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With the future developments of the Trailblazer standards, do we
need these are various Levels ?
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Can we aligned the new standards to professional status at EngTech
or IENG if applicable ?
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Are there more opportunities for employers to share best practice ?