ROUND UP
JTL pursues greater diversity in apprenticeship training
addition to demonstrating some of the skills they would learn, he showed them how many things they had already been taught at school - Pythagoras’ Theorem, for instance - have a direct and practical relevance to solving practical technical problems. The participants also heard from JTL’s
Employability Tutor Stella Olufemi, who told them about JTL’s special traineeship programme, a 9 to 12 week programme that combines preparation and training with up to four weeks of work experience with a local employer - and which can lead to a full apprenticeship. And because role models are so important, the
participants listened to a talk from Zara Thomas, an electrical maintenance apprentice and a runner-up in JTL’s Regional Apprentice of the Year competition. She was on hand to explain why she chose to do an apprenticeship and the attractive range of benefits and prospects it offers to young black people like herself. The event received outstanding feedback from
the thirteen pupils. But its potential impact goes wider than that, as Yasmin now prepares to use similar events to engage girls, the LGBT community, people with disabilities and other under-represented groups. “It’s all about capturing the talent of individuals
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f you think black plumbers, Asian electricians and minority ethnic heating engineers are in
short supply, you’d be right. But not necessarily for the right reasons. Black, Asian and minority ethnicity (BAME) background people have long been under-represented in the building services engineering sector – and one of the largest apprenticeship training companies in the UK is actively addressing the barriers, perceptions and misunderstandings that get in the way of greater BAME recruitment into the industry. “It’s not enough to talk about workforce
diversity,” says Yasmin Damree-Ralph, Equality and Diversity Officer at JTL. “The challenge is to make it happen - and that takes commitment, creativity and an increasingly high level of organisational collaboration.” To this end, Yasmin and her colleagues at
JTL recently teamed up with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust to pilot a special apprenticeship awareness event targeted specifically at young black people, who currently account for just 3.5 percent of apprenticeship starts. Young black school pupils - particularly boys -
often think of further education in college as nothing more than an extension of school, which holds little appeal for them. “But studying at college as part of an apprenticeship is something completely different,” says Yasmin. “It’s a much more engaging, practical and career-orientated way to study and learn, so we invited them to JTL’s Training Centre in Orpington to experience this for themselves.”
July/August 2018
www.education-today.co.uk 39 Thirteen pupils from Deptford Green School
chose to attend this “Day in the Life at College” event. They were treated as real apprentices right from the start, and Andy Laimbeer - a JTL Electrical Tutor - gave them an insight into what training as an apprentice really involves. In
from all backgrounds and working to remove any barriers that exist,” she says. “Above all, we want young BAME people and their parents to know that apprenticeships open up real careers with valuable qualifications, attractive rewards and lots of job satisfaction.”
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