Network Rail Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme

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Network Rail Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme

• Nigel Ward
• Apprentice Delivery Manager
• Network Rail

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The Scheme

• 3 year Advanced Apprenticeship framework
• 200 240 apprentices per year
• Currently recruiting our 4th intake
• Unique partnering arrangements
• 1st Year residential within a military
  establishment
• Developed to meet expectations
• www.everydaybrilliance.co.uk

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The Business Case

• Commercially viable
• Identify the need
• Aging workforce
• Succession planning
• Developing new skills and abilities
• Investing in people the responsibility

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Delivery

• The economy of scale
• Partnerships
• Meeting expectations
• Keep it simple
• Monitor progression
• Engage with the front line

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Recruitment Adding the X Factor

• Make it exciting and challenging
• Careers not just training
• Offer an alternative
• Parental support
• Robust selection process
• Its only going to get tougher

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Developing the skills and changing a culture

• Life skills Employment skills
• cultural changes in line with our core values
• determination
• respect
• teamwork
• pride
• programme of activities and opportunities
• to grow
• Mind the Gap!

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Apprentices today Engineers tomorrow

• 1st appointments and beyond
• Further academic development
• Meeting expectations?
• Retention
• Support from institutions

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Areas of Concern

• Scheme bureaucracy
• Funding that is inconsistent
• Pre employment educational standards
• Career information
• Apprenticeships are not a catch all

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WHY!

• How we develop and manage our apprentices now
  will help define how Network Rail behaves and
  performs in the future
• If you think its all too much trouble!