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Apprenticeships Inquiry: Meeting 3: Providers Perspective PDF 38 KB
Report of the Head of Communities, Change and
Partnership, attached
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Panel considered the report of the Head of
Communities, Change and Partnerships reviewing apprenticeship
training provision and feedback from local providers.
Ian Smith, National Apprenticeship Service
(NAS) outlined local apprenticeship training arrangements:-
- Previously areas had been allocated
budgets, but there was now a single budget so that it could be
targeted to the growth areas.
- Annually there was a fixed sum for
16-18 year olds and then the remainder was for 19+.
- Each provider was checked quarterly
to ensure they were still performing, rather than just being given
all the funding at the beginning regardless of the outcome.
- Each provider had a relationship
manager as a contact point.
- Most apprentices working within
Southampton either attend City College or Totton College.
- It was necessary to go out of the
City for some specialist areas. However
most courses, where ever they were, cover only general areas and
sometimes are not appropriate for individual placements that were
specialist areas.
- Need to look at whether the
apprenticeships offered were matching the need.
Claire Sutton, from SETA and also representing
the Association of Learning Providers Hampshire and IOW updated the
Panel on the Apprenticeship provider network (ALPHIE):-
- Support network covering 36
providers.
- Looking at ways to promote
apprenticeships to all stakeholders.
- Many apprenticeships can have 40
applications where others have none.
- Need to see what the local labour
market looks like.
- Currently employers were very
confused about the number of different types of qualifications that
student could leave education with and what they were equivalent
to.
- In 2007 - 77.8% in college and 8.8%
in employment or training, in 2013 – 89.3% in college and
2.6% in employment or training – Concerns that problem is
just being transferred for the 2 years that the young people were
in further education.
- Looking at reasons why they do not
want to apply at 16 years old.
- Want to ensure the providers were
offering the training that was required.
- Concerned that the schools were not
engaged enough.
- Reluctance to loose employers to
other providers.
- Do send apprentices to other
providers if they were not able to meet their training needs
– example of Esso. City College said that they currently had 168
students who were not their apprentices.
- Working on what the employers want
and this then benefitted the learner.
- ALPHIE map what the providers
do.
- ALPHIE gives employers more
apprentices and gives more choice to the young people. If provider can not meet the need then they were
able to refer to another provider within the network.
- Need to engage those employers who
were not currently using apprentices – needed help from other
agencies to help get the information about these employers.
- Problems have been created since the
changes to careers advice at school.
Felt this would become more of an issue once the school leaving age
was increase.
Ruth Evan, Headteacher, Cantell
Maths and Computing College outlined the issues relating to careers
guidance within schools:-
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