Would you acheive this?
Get Recognised.
Get Accredited.
Would you acheive this?
Get Recognised.
Get Accredited.
Are you an employer of choice for Engineering Apprenticeships?
Benchmark your Apprenticeship scheme against industry best practice and get recognised via the Make UK Engineering Apprenticeships: Employer Kitemark accreditation. Via a unique 12 month rolling Accreditation process, you can work towards achieving a best practice benchmark and being endorsed as an exemplar employer of Engineering Apprentices.
Benchmark your Apprenticeship Scheme
Benchmark your approach against industry best practice to identify where and how to improve.
Get Accredited
Pursue a 12 month Accreditation process including Benchmarking, Apprentice and Training Provider Survey feedback
Get recognised
Leverage the Kitemark publicly to stand out as an Employer of choice and attract the best young talent
Learn more about how you can start your company’s journey to Accreditation.
Through our rolling 12 month Accreditation process, the Make UK Engineering Apprenticeships: Employer Kitemark Accreditation will help you to:
- Run a high performing Apprenticeship scheme
- Get recognised and stand out to attract the best young talent
- Make sure you are delivering the best possible Apprentice experience
How it works:
“This kitemark complements and builds on the programmes that Make UK and Next Gen Makers have already developed which are key to helping place apprentices and enable employers to bridge the skills gap which is currently affecting the sector.”
Stephen Phipson
Chief Executive Officer, Make UK
Who is already involved? Example companies:
We are proud to be recognised as an exemplar employer of Engineering Apprentices, which further enhances the excellent reputation that our apprenticeship scheme has.
Through benchmarking, we have also been able to identify areas to improve and have actively worked to implement those improvements. The fact that this is employer led and you get to hear the things that are working for other companies has been hugely beneficial to us.
You may think you are doing everything right, and you probably are to a degree, but you can always learn more, you can always grow. The Programme helps you to understand the gaps that you have.
We still have work to do but gaining the ‘Excellent Employer’ Kitemark status was nice recognition of what we already do well. Sharing best practice gives you a better understanding of what other companies are doing and pursuing Accreditation gives you the incentive to improve
Apprentices are the future of our workforce. The Kitemark demonstrates to external company’s and potential employees the commitment we have to our future workforce.
I would recommend the Best Practice Programme; it gives you a much more structured and focused approach to your apprenticeship scheme and provides us with a network of people that we can tap into to share ideas and create the best possible outcomes
We are proud of our success rate with apprentices, supporting their learning and helping them to grow as individuals, who are going to add real value and energy to the business. We are confident that working within this initiative, improving structure, using the online tools, and sharing best practice will enable us to further improve our approach.
The Kitemark and being recognised as an excellent employer should help us to attract local talent, keep us focused on improvement and ensure we continue to provide the best environment for our future apprentices
I’m really happy to have found something to help us build on our current apprenticeship scheme.
The tools are great and there are lots of them. Listening to the other members and watching the recordings really triggers thoughts and ideas about what we can do. There is such a willingness to share, it helps me to feel calm knowing there is so much help and support
At HCM, we are developing our Apprenticeship scheme as a direct result of being involved in the Best Practice Programme; learning from and sharing ideas with other manufacturing and engineering firms. Hearing from others has opened my eyes to different ways of approaching the role Apprentices could play in our business moving forward
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