Transcript Ensuring the Apprenticeship Programme Expands and Improves.

National Apprenticeship
Service
David Jackson
Employer Services Manager
National Apprenticeship Service
London Region
Department for Business Innovation
and Skills
• ‘those of you who have followed the debate around further education
policy over the last few years will know how much store this government
sets on apprenticeships. There are many good reasons for that. First and
foremost, the apprenticeships model is not only work-based, but workfocused. It passes on the practical skills needed to do a particular job in a
way that is widely appreciated and understood.
• Demand for apprenticeship places is growing and one of our priorities is to
encourage more employers to participate. Apprenticeships are both a
route to key competences for employees and a vital way to help
employers build highly skilled, efficient businesses.’
• John Hayes
• Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning
• 17th June 2010, City and Islington College
SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE
GROWTH November 2010
Apprenticeships are at the heart of the system
that we will build. They bring together
individuals, motivated and working hard to
develop themselves; employers, investing in
their own success but supporting a
programme with wider social, environmental
and economic value; and Government,
providing public funding and building the
prestige and reputation of the programme.
Skills for Growth recommendations
• ●● We will expand the numbers of adult
Apprenticeships available by up to 75,000 by 2014–15
• ●● We will reshape Apprenticeships so Level 3
becomes the level to which learners and employers
aspire
• ●● We will ensure there are clear routes from
Apprenticeships to higher level training including, but
not exclusively, Level 4 Apprenticeships
Content of Apprenticeship:
An Apprenticeship is not a qualification in itself
Common structure to all apprenticeships
Specific content determined by Sector Skills Councils
180 Frameworks covering 80 industry sectors
Available at two levels:
Apprenticeship to Level 2
Equivalent to 5 GCSE’s A- C grade
Advanced Apprenticeship to Level 3
Equivalent to 2 A Levels
Apprenticeship
NVQ
Competence Based
5
Tech Cert
Theoretical
Underpinning
Knowledge
Key skills
qualifications
Content of Apprenticeship:
• Existing mandatory/essential training can be mapped against
core qualifications to ensure there is no duplication
(repetition) of training
• Accreditation of Prior Learning can be applied to
qualifications to exempt units the potential apprentice may
have previously covered
• This core mandatory offer can be supplemented by any
additional training and qualifications felt necessary for the
post
• Specific additional training content can be accredited through
QCF with a suitable awarding body
Apprenticeships and Employment
Apprentices are always in full time employment :• Existing employee on existing terms – allowing maximum redeployment of
existing highly valued staff.
• Existing employee on existing terms - ensures consistent, high quality
performance across departments
• New recruit into full time vacancy – ensures maximum effectiveness into
the new role and opens up recruitment to focus on Attitude and Aptitude
• New recruit to fixed term vacancy – this allows recruitment as above but
offers the flexibility of setting the pay rate to match the training position
and/or ties training outcomes into performance management.
• New recruit to ATA (Apprentice Training Agency) similar to Fixed term
contract but in this case the ATA acts as the employer and takes on full
HR responsibility.
Skills Funding Agency Funding
• Funding is usually drawn down directly by a contracted Training Provider
and the amount of subsidy is dependant on age band
• Apprentices who are 16,17 or 18 when they start their programme are
funded at 100% of the expected cost of the specific framework (the actual
amount varies between frameworks)
• Apprentices who are between 19 and 24 when they start their programme
are funded at 50% of the above rate
• Apprentices who are 25 or more are funded at about 40% of the 16 -18
rate
• Funding available for the Advanced Apprenticeship L3 Business For an
employer with 1000+ employees is
• 16-18 = £5,729
• 19-24 = £2,043.
• 25+ = £1,717
National Apprenticeship Service
• Employer Services Managers
Helping you find the right ‘frameworks’ and the right providers
Sector and Geographical (Borough) leads to provide individual
support and advice
• Learner Services
Working with intermediaries to support and encourage potential
candidates
• Vacancy Matching System
To compliment and support existing recruitment processes
Summary of Key Benefits
• Apprenticeships provide comprehensive high quality training
with the assurance to mangers that all staff trained
demonstrate the required quality of delivery and performance.
• Apprenticeships provide a suite of nationally recognised
qualifications for the trainees ensuring full understanding and
competency in their role.
• Existing training can be mapped and assimilated into the
Apprenticeship framework to ensure relevance to the
employer and avoiding duplication for the trainee.
• Apprenticeships provide an HR solution to restructuring,
facilitating optimisation of existing staff in new or redefined
roles
Summary of Key Benefits
• Apprenticeships support progression routes through
employment bands e.g. from Health Care assistant to
Assistant Practitioner and possibly on to a full Degree in
Nursing for example.
• Apprenticeships allow for flexibility in recruitment which is not
dependant on previous experience and/or qualifications but
focuses on attitude and aptitude.
• Fixed term contracts or ATA’s can be used where full time
vacancies are not currently available.
• Training budgets can be extended by benefiting from the
funding subsidy paid by the Skills Funding Agency for
Apprenticeships.
Useful Links
• The content of apprenticeships are currently going through a period of
change due to the replacement of the NQF with the QCF
http://www.ofqual.gov.uk/qualification-and-assessment-framework/89articles/145-explaining-the-qualifications-and-credit-framework
• The Apprenticeship Blueprint is being replaced by the new Specification
of Apprenticeship Standards for England
http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/About-Us/SASE.aspx
• BIS http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2010/Nov/Skills-forsustainable-growth
• National Apprenticeship Service http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/