Blog: Apprenticeship Initiative SECBE Awards 2019 finalist - TAC

16 April 2019

sponsored by CoTrain

The Technical Apprenticeship Consortium (TAC) has brought together some of the world's best-known engineering firms, enabling them to meet their business needs through the recruitment and training of apprentices. TAC members recruited 657 apprentices in the 2017/18 academic year alone.

Key features:

• Develops apprenticeship standards linked to professional registration and career development routes
• Supports members to maximise apprenticeships and their associated funding opportunities
• Collaborates both nationally and regionally to share best practice
• Maintains high quality and consistent apprenticeship training provision through quality-assured preferred providers
• Promotes the broader apprenticeship agenda to support employers to attract and retain the best talent

Members have access to a full-time account manager to support their apprenticeship needs, and an education specialist to facilitate and promote the development of apprenticeship standards through dedicated Trailblazer groups.

Education & training providers:

• TAC ensures consistency and continuity between training providers and employers wherever they are based
• Access to high quality is assured - training provision through a TAC approved provider list
• TAC assists in finding new educational providers to deliver apprenticeship training as demand grows
• TAC liaises with professional institutions to ensure apprentice readiness for end point assessment and professional registration

Highlights

• Employer lead consortium with national coverage, with trailblazer standards developed as follows:

a. 4 No. at level 3 for railway design, transport planning, building services, civil engineering

b. 4 No. at level 6 for civil engineering, building services, transport planning & environmental practitioner

• 1,400 apprenticeships delivered since inception in 2010, 657 placed at member firms alone in the 2017/18 year a number which continues to grow year on year.
• Supports member firms in the delivery of high quality training and education that they would not have the capacity to deliver individually.

The SECBE 2019 Apprenticeship Initiative Award is sponsored by CoTrain.