Apprenticeships and Technical Education Pathways: Removing Barriers and Supportive Factors

Audience: EAs, Cornerstones, Business contacts, School Careers Teams

Overview: Join us for an insight session to find out more about apprenticeship and technical education pathways, the barriers and supportive factors to young people taking these pathways and the employer perspective and ways in which businesses can employ young people through these routes.

Agenda

1.  Intro – What are the ATE* pathways?

2.  The Careers and Enterprise ‘Conditions for transition’ report – what is it telling us?

3.  Panel 1: Challenges and Opportunities of the apprenticeship pathway

o  Hear from two apprentices taking this pathway

4.  Panel 2: Removing barriers to supply and uptake

o  How to employ an apprentice

o  An employer perspective on hiring apprentices

o  How employers can provide inclusive opportunities

5.  How PAL** is helping?

6.  Open Q&A

Through the session there will be time for Q&A for the panels.

*ATE – Apprenticeships and Technical Education

**PAL- Provider Access Legislation

Pre- reading if helpful

·  ‘Conditions for transition: supporting young people onto apprenticeships and technical pathways - a regional analysis’.  Conditions for Transition: Supporting young people onto apprenticeships and technical pathways | The Careers and Enterprise Company