AWE has launched its annual apprenticeship recruitment campaign targeting school leavers and college students, to become the next generation of engineers.
Applications for the award winning AWE apprenticeship programme open today and are available via the AWE website www.awe.co.uk/careers, with a start date in September 2016.
Newbury College is one of a number of local providers supporting the AWE apprenticeship campaign who have had a number of students successfully complete the programme and go on to become successful engineers.
AWE's nationally recognised Skills Academy will see Apprentices work on site to achieve an NVQ qualification combined with day release to College to achieve a Level 3 Technical Certificate.
Applications for AWE Engineering Apprenticeships are invited in the following areas:
Geoff Druce, Head of Learning and development at AWE, comments "The AWE Apprenticeships are an excellent chance for young people with an interest in engineering to gain real workplace experience in the engineering industry whilst gaining a work based qualification, and earning at the same time. At the end of their training, the Apprentices will be fully qualified engineers with highly successful and well paid careers ahead of them."
AWE is holding an open day for school leavers and college students to find out more about the AWE apprenticeship programme and to speak to apprentices and instructors on Tuesday 1st December, 3pm-8pm at Tadley Library, Mulfords Hill.
In the run up to Global Enterprise Week, Newbury College students took part in locally run programmes to inspire students to explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.
Students took part in Champions of Enterprise, a two day programme run in partnership with the Education Business Partnership on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 November. Students spent the days reviewing and analysing possible business ventures with the support of local entrepreneurs before judges decided which business to invest in.
Skills Project Mentor Sian Ellis, who organised the event said, We are grateful to all those who have helped make this event a success for our students. It has been a fantastic opportunity for them to put their enterprise skills into practice, supported by the knowledge and experience of local businesses.
College students also participated in Thames Valley Tech Week, a programme run by ConnectTVT, which saw three different Colleges host events over the course of the week. Newbury College hosted an event on Thursday 12 November, where teams of students competed against one another to create and present a business proposal with the help of business experts.
The winning team of Champions Enterprise made up of two Business students, an IT student and an Art Student, will progress to the finals of the competition challenging local schools for the winning place at The Regency Park Hotel on Tuesday 8 December. While judges of the Thames Valley Tech event were so impressed with the innovative products the teams had come up with, three of the four teams were presented with £300 from sponsors Telefonica to progress their idea further over the next 6 months with the programme.
The events were hosted in order to enhance students' enterprise skills and give them an insight into how a business is set up and run; and the factors that makes businesses successful.
Global Entrepreneurship Week runs each November and is the world's largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch start-ups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. This year the event is ran from Monday 16 November ' Sunday 22 November.
Newbury College will be opening its doors to the public at its first Open Evening of the academic year on Tuesday 10 November 4pm ' 8pm. Whether you wish to further your education with a vocational course, take your GCSEs or A Levels, start an HE qualification or develop your career with a part time course Newbury College can help you decide.
Visitors to the College will be able to meet with course tutors and take part in a range of interactive activities from receiving a complimentary manicure to vegetable carving and photo-shop techniques. Current students will be on hand on the night to discuss their experiences with the College and to take visitors on tours of the state of the art facilities which will include the motor vehicle, engineering and plumbing workshops; computing and media suites; hair-dressing and beauty salons; art workshops; animal care unit; professional kitchen; training restaurant and sports hall.
For those interested in an Apprenticeship there will be talks to de-mystify apprenticeships and explain the benefits of on-the-job training, at 5pm and 7pm, while those interested in working at the College can discover the opportunities available in recruitment sessions running at 6pm and 7pm.
The event will also see the launch of the College's new Full Time Prospectus which details the wide range of courses on offer for next year including, GCSE and A Level courses, vocational courses, traineeships, apprenticeship and Higher Education options.
For more information about the Open Evening, or for any other queries please call 01635 845000