APPRENTICESHIPS
TRADE UNION ACTIVITIES
Apprenticeships are building social mobility by opening up professional roles to more people, and University income from them has risen almost 20-fold over three years.
Apprenticeships are making a difference to people’s lives, providing skills for economic participation and building a more prosperous society. They are also proving to be a financial success for the University, as income from them has risen from £353,000 in 2017/18 to around £7 million in 2021. They are a key contributor to our financial sustainability.
Our apprenticeships make professional roles accessible. Two-thirds of our apprentices have parents with no experience of higher education and only 37% have parents with professional, associate professional or managerial jobs. Our degrees boost social mobility considerably.
In 2020/21, 1,400 students worked towards Middlesex apprenticeships, twice as many as in 2019/20. The sustainability of this figure is underpinned by the rising popularity of apprenticeships, particularly those leading to degrees. Around one in three people starting an apprenticeship in 2019/20 in England are on higher or degree-level schemes, compared to some one in five the previous year, according to 2020 government figures. This is despite the pandemic.
The workplace is the primary place for professional learning and all apprenticeships at Middlesex aim to provide practice- led education that transforms individual lives while ensuring employers have the skills they need.
In its 2020/21 annual quality review, the College of Policing commended the Police Education Consortium (led by Middlesex) for its high-quality education and “commitment to the preparation and planning across a complex partnership”.
Apprenticeships also provide significant development opportunities for Middlesex staff. We support all eligible academic staff to undertake the Academic Professional Apprenticeship as a route to becoming a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2020/21, the first cohort
of staff started Senior Leader Apprenticeships, which is a key aspect of the Strategy to promote a culture of collaborative leadership across the University. We are already delivering the Academic Professional Apprenticeship to some NHS Trusts and the Senior Leader Apprenticeship will also become available to external employers from January 2022. To add to this leadership portfolio, Middlesex has approved Coaching Professional and Chartered Manager Apprenticeships, which will be available to both Middlesex staff and external employers.
A flexible approach to delivering training has mitigated the impact of the pandemic substantially, resulting in 94% of our apprentices continuing to progress throughout the crisis. The use of mobile learning devices for Police Constable apprentices has allowed the essential three-way professional learning conversations between apprentices, employers and tutors to continue online.
NATIONAL AND GLOBAL INFLUENCE
In the past year, Middlesex gained global recognition for its research on the work-based learning it has established over the last 30 years, and this has further demonstrated the University’s influential impact on thought leadership around national apprenticeship policy and practice.
Recent research shows Middlesex is contributing to the direction of national policy on degree apprenticeships, which is moving to a model that more fully integrates on and off-the-job learning. The University is working with national bodies including the Department of Education, the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education and the Education and Skills Funding Agency as well as representative bodies such as Universities UK, the University Vocational Awards Council and MillionPlus. Similarly, our work on the social mobility impact of apprenticeship is influencing national policy and has featured in training for the Education and Skills Funding Agency staff.
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