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News Release from: Shrewsbury College
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 September 2006
College delivers entire apprenticeship
framework
Shrewsbury College has become the first in Shropshire to offer fully integrated apprenticeships in engineering.
Shrewsbury College has become the first in Shropshire to offer fully integrated apprenticeships in engineering, making it one of only a handful of further education colleges in the country to do so Until recently the college delivered specific areas of apprenticeship training in isolation, such as NVQs and technical certificates, but now it is delivering the entire apprenticeship framework
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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A major engineering employer in Shrewsbury already using the integrated apprentice system is Doncasters, in Whitchurch Road, which supplies fabrications and machined components to the aerospace industry.
It is part of a leading international engineering group operating from 25 sites in the UK, the Continent, the USA and Mexico.
Doncasters has five apprentices doing their entire framework with Shrewsbury College, plus others doing technical certificates.
Doncasters finds that Shrewsbury College's ability to deliver fully integrated apprenticeship training is to the benefit of the company and its apprentices.
It is simpler to deal with one organisation rather than several, as used to be the case, and it can more easily monitor the progress apprentices are making.
The company can also develop a deeper relationship with the college's engineering department and be confident its requirements as a company are really understood.
Individual apprentices benefit by having continuity and consistency in their training, and by getting to know their tutors much better than under the more fragmented system.
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