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Higher Apprenticeships In Practice
29 January 2015
Miles Pixley CEng. FIMechE, MIET
General Manager: Technical and Professional Development
JCB
Our higher apprenticeship
programme
Programme Summary
Benefits to our Business
• Foundation Degree – Integrated • High calibre candidates
Engineering with Sheffield
Hallam University
• 1 day per week for 2 years
• Progression to BEng
(Mechanical / Manufacturing)
• Further 1 day per week for 2
years
• After 1 year equivalent to our
undergraduates who have 2
years at university.
• Pace of learning enables basic
processes and principles to be
embedded.
• Loyalty
How our partnership works
Expectations and
Arrangements
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Delivery flexibility
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Visibility of workload / study sequence
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Spacing of projects
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IT Access for support
Benefits and Wider
Opportunities for HEIs
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Government funding including HEFCE
based programmes now supported.
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Can enable companies to grow
numbers.
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Foundation programmes feed to other
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Recognised time for access to tutor.
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Awareness of software tools
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Get to know our business
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Accurate and timely invoicing
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Deliver elements under direct contract
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REGULAR FEEDBACK
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Understanding “Responsible Employees”
delivery dynamic
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Planning cycles / defined owners
awards
for other needs
Delivery Realities
Delivery Challenges
How These Were Resolved
• Matching course content to
• Pass levels / grades /
business needs
• Delivery pattern and location
acceptable programmers
agreed.
• Entry criteria (esp. Maths)
• Faster response to new queries
• College / University entrance
• Sequence defined
needs / interview policy
• Business expectations
• Multiple application forms
• Sequence of conditional offer
• Visibility of cost model
• College / Uni quality owners
• Still multiple registrations!
• Senior level engagement to
resolve issues
The Future
What is Planned ?
• Growth in numbers
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Further embedding of company
Perceptions changed…Managers want
case studies (started with
x3 graduate demand
Hydraulics)
Offer of full BEng / MEng from
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Modular options for other
outset for right candidates
established employees to keep up
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Local delivery locations important
to date
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Potential conversion programmes
(top up Maths in readiness)
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Business approach to cost. (15
students cost to 14 students).
Questions
Are the challenges the same regardless of subject / discipline?
What are perceptions of the “Higher Apprenticeship” brand?
Can more open book costing be achieved to create a sustainable model, with true
partnership?
What cohort sizes are viable business?