TRAINING & SKILLS
On track for success
Wales-based ARC Academy UK was established in June 2011 to deliver workplace skills to the long-term unemployed in rail engineering, health and social care, construction and call centres, and has added Railway Engineering Level 2 apprenticeships to its portfolio. Its director, Antony Richardson, explains more.
ARC
Academy delivers railway engineering apprenticeships with a
tailor-made scheme that ensures its apprentices gain skills and knowledge that allow them to start and need. Listening to them enables us to develop bespoke apprenticeship programmes.
components of an apprenticeship, but it always covers the essentials: delivering programmes that ensure employers never have to seek add- additional training outside of the apprenticeship framework, and each apprentice can expect to receive additional mandatory courses: Network Rail accredited 10-day Track Induction, small tools courses, including Kango and impact wrenches, etc.
ARC Academy UK has eight delivery sites across the country, which provide convenient locations with excellent transport links. Every site has
training facilities and a live railway track, which gives apprentices the chance to gain real-work experience, and the apprentices receive full
New developments
ARC is developing a new delivery site in Treforest which will include a 49m track, where we will deliver track induction courses and machine controller courses to our commercial customers. It will also be home to our railway engineering apprentices during their 13-week initial induction.
It is a classroom-led programme, delivered one or two days a week or as a full-time arrangement over 13 weeks. Apprentices carry out track maintenance activities on the live running rail tracks. Industry experts visit apprentices in the workplace to perfect each aspect of their role and to guarantee that every apprenticeship is both challenging and rewarding.
Assessments are also carried out by ARC
observation, tasks and assignments, or the testimony of line managers or experienced work and most apprenticeships are completed in 12 months.
It is important that employers understand that sectors such as rail (where ARC focuses a lot of its training), which is facing a decline in knowledge, skills and experience as its ageing workforce gets closer to retirement.
can also improve a company’s competitive edge because it is considered a real plus-point when bidding for contracts.
W:
www.arcacademyuk.com FOR MORE INFORMATION
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