Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships ensure that your workforce has the practical skills and qualifications your organisation needs now and in the future.

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We currently offer Apprenticeships in the following areas:

  • Engineering
  • Bookkeeping and Accounts
  • Motor Vehicle
  • Plumbing
  • Hairdressing
  • Childcare
  • Health & Social Care
  • Business Administration
  • Customer Service and Retail Skills
  • Hospitality
  • Information Technology
  • Learning and Development
  • Team Leading

For more detailed information about the courses offered, please look at Apprenticeships to the left of this page.

Key benefits that Apprenticeships bring to organisations include:

  • Improved productivity
  • Improved competitiveness
  • Committed, competent and motivated workforce.

Apprenticeships ensure that your workforce has the practical skills and qualifications your organisations needs now and in the future.  The mixture of on- and off-job learning ensures they learn the skills that work best for your business.  Over 130,000 companies offer apprentice places because they understand the benefits that apprentices bring to their business .

Improve your bottom line

Apprenticeships deliver real returns to your bottom line.  In a recent survey*, the majority of employers said that Apprenticeships helped them to improve productivity and to be more competitive.  They also said that training apprentices is more cost effective than hiring skilled staff, leading to lower overall training and recruitment costs.

Fill your skill gaps

Apprenticeships deliver skills designed around your business needs.  They also help you develop the specialist skills you need to keep pace with the latest technology and working practices in your sector and improve your competitiveness.

Motivate your workforce

Apprentices tend to be eager, motivated, flexible and loyal to the company that invested in them.  Remember, an apprentice is with you becaue they want to be – they have made an active choice to learn on the job and a commitment to a specific career.

Some facts and figures …

  • 77% of employers believe apprenticeships make them more competitive
  • 76% say that apprenticeships provide higher overall productivity
  • 80% feel that apprenticeships reduce staff turnover
  • 83% of employers rely on their apprenticeships programme to provide the skilled workers  they need for the future
  • Over 65% believe that their apprenticeship programme helps them fill vacancies more quickly, whilst
  • 88% believe that apprenticeships lead to a more motivated and satisfied workforce.
  • 59% report that training apprentices is more cost-effective than hiring skilled, with 59% believing that apprenticeships lead to lower overall training costs, and 53% feeling that they reduced recruitment costs.
  • In terms of the return on investment linked to apprenticeships, 41% of employers say that their apprentices make a valuable contribution to the business during their training period, while a further 33% report that apprentices add value within their first few weeks – or even from Day One.
  • 57% report a high proportion of their apprentices going on to management positions within the company
  • And finally, over 75% expect apprenticeships to play a bigger part in their recruitment policy in the future.

If you are looking for a development opportunity, nationally-recognised qualifications and a low-cost way to develop your staff, it’s time to consider the Apprenticeship programme.

Apprenticeships have changed.  Apprenticeships are structured development programmes that develop the  knowledge, competence and technical skills that each person needs to perform well in their job.  They are not only for young people starting out in a job, nor do they only apply to the traditional trades like plumbing and gas fitting. The modern apprenticeship can also be taken, for example, Childcare or Customer Service.

Interested? You will find all the Apprenticeship courses available listed on these pages.  If you would like more general information about Apprenticeships and the advantages to employers and apprentices of all ages, why not take a look at the Government site www.apprenticeships.org.uk Our advisors are here to answer any questions you may have, so please contact us by email kes@kingston-college.ac.uk or by telephone on 020 8268 2861.


* Source: Apprenticeships survey conducted by Populus on behalf of the Learning and Skills Council, February 2009.