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BESA backs ‘new improved’ degree apprenticeships
Substantially revised degree apprenticeships for building services engineering will help employers plug critical skills gaps and launch more young people into rewarding careers, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).
T
he Association welcomed the announcement from the Institute for Apprenticeships
and Technical Education (IfATE) that a new single degree level ‘Building Services Engineer’ (BSE) apprenticeship would be launched from 2025. The process was led by the
Technical Apprenticeship Consortium (TAC), which brings together employers and training specialists, with courses leading to the new apprenticeship expected to start in the spring of 2025 subject to fi nal approval from the Secretary of State for Education. The apprenticeships are expected to have government
funding support of up to £27,000 per applicant, and universities and colleges will start reviewing their courses next year. The new single apprenticeship brings together the former Building Services Design Engineer (ST0372), which was fi rst launched in October 2017, and Building Services Engineering Site Management (ST0040), which started in May 2018. These two courses led to the
accreditation of more than 900 apprentices with degrees recognised by CIBSE – the sector’s chartering body – and many of the successful students registered with the Engineering Council as Incorporated
Engineers (IEng). However, employers had called for changes to better refl ect their needs and the aspirations of a new generation of engineers. The creation of ‘trailblazer’ groups also enabled more direct feedback from employers into the content of apprentice training and TAC was able to draw on this to update the degree level qualifi cations. The review process overwhelmingly concluded that BSE degree level qualifi cations needed to be more fl exible, according to Helen Yeulet, BESA’s director of training and skills. “Apprentices don’t want to pigeonhole themselves too early in their careers,” added TAC’s Caroline
Sudworth. “There are many diff erent routes into building services engineering these days and multiple career paths available including design, contracting, client roles and manufacturing.” The new approach will considerably
reduce the burden of assessment on apprentices; with the fi nal dissertation element amended to deliver a technical project which can support progression to the professional review stage, according to IfATE. It is also hoped that the new
approach will reduce the number of candidates who withdraw without completing the process which can last up to fi ve years.
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