Apprenticeships & Training
Feature
However there is a worrying trend that skill-shortage vacancies represent a growing challenge for employers in filling their vacancies, with 209,000 reported skill-shortage vacancies; an increase of 43% since 2013. To highlight the construction sector, which is hugely important to the region contributing nearly £90 billion to the UK economy, with over a million jobs, and is strategically important in its contribution to housing, infrastructure and initiatives designed to stimulate UK growth. The survey found employers in the construction sector were struggling to fill one in three vacancies, up from one in four in 2013, because the work force is not appropriately skilled. STEMNET (the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Network) are working hard to create opportunities to inspire young people of all backgrounds and abilities to meet inspiring role models, understand real world applications of subjects and experience hands-on STEM activities that motivate, inspire and bring learning and career opportunities to life. It is important that there are progression routes into employment and
that there are skills programmes available to meet the needs of those who are already in the workplace – and it’s for this reason we are now seeing a real growth in the development and take up of higher level apprenticeships. With STEMNET having positioned apprenticeships at the centre of its
skills investment strategy it is also demanding that employers take the leading role in the design of new apprenticeship standards at this level. At South and City College Birmingham, faculty heads are already
collaborating with employers in the construction, environmental, health and professional sectors to design and deliver new standards and is working closely with local higher education Institutions to ensure there are entry and progression pathways in STEM related occupations such as construction and health management. If we are all really serious about making our businesses and communities
more successful and capable of measuring up within a competitive global economy, investment in STEM development and linked higher level apprenticeships is an approach we must all sign up to, not as a one off but as a central part of this regions strategic human resource development plan.
For further information on higher level apprenticeships and how you can get involved in either developing new standards, recruiting new staff at this level or upskilling your existing workforce contact contact Teresa Addinell at 0121 702 1018 or email
Teresa.addinell@
sccb.ac.uk
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