Teaching & School Apprenticeships
Enhance your employees, provide teacher CPD and increase development with our apprenticeships.
It is a common misconception that promoting apprenticeships in school is all about inspiring students to consider the wide range of career opportunities that apprenticeships can offer, however, there is a growing number of schools across England that are accessing apprenticeship funding to boost their training and development budgets and unlock an exciting range of programmes for both their support staff and teacher CPD.
Apprenticeships
Schools may sometimes feel like there is not enough time to look at anything outside of the daily priorities, especially with the challenges that the Covid pandemic has brought. However, there remains a huge, untapped opportunity for schools and Multi-Academy Trusts to utilise the apprenticeship levy to boost the motivation, retention and overall skills of their workforce, which can lead to improved learning outcomes for students.
School-based apprenticeships, designed for middle and senior school leaders can build and strengthen both individual and team capacity, helping to ensure that every member of a leadership team has the knowledge and skills to work alongside and support headteachers.
Who can be an apprentice?
Apprenticeships are not restricted to young people or new recruits. Anyone can be an apprentice at any age and benefit from Government funding to gain a professionally recognised qualification to add to their skills. Apprenticeships can be for your existing staff members, or you can take on a new member of staff as an apprentice.
City Skills offer apprenticeships that support many areas of your school:
- Administration and office staff
- Teaching Assistants
- Middle Leaders and Senior Leaders
- Dual Professional Staff who manage other teachers and staff
- HR Manager, HR personnel or HR support staff
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Benefits of Apprenticeships for schools
You can use Apprenticeships to recruit and train new staff, or to upskill existing faculty. Tailor apprenticeships to suit the needs of the school by contextualising the knowledge, skills, and behaviours to make them relevant.
There are many financial incentives. The cost of delivering apprenticeship training and assessment can be 100% subsidised.
Upskill existing school staff & Teacher CPD
Use your Apprenticeship Levy to invest in your existing staff to boost staff loyalty and retention. Help staff progress their career with new qualifications. Demonstrate that your school values its workforce, which motivates and engages staff members.