QA Apprenticeships leads the pack to take Tech Industry Gold accreditation
QA Apprenticeships has become the first provider in the UK to be licensed to offer Tech Industry Gold apprenticeships – the employer-designed programmes that equip young people with the skills for a career in technology.
QA Apprenticeships has become the first provider in the UK to be licensed to offer Tech Industry Gold apprenticeships – the employer-designed programmes that equip young people with the skills for a career in technology.
Tech Industry Gold is a new accreditation, designed to point employers and prospective apprentices to programmes that deliver top quality learning and development. This provides employer validation of QA’s unrivalled suite of IT & Technology Apprenticeships across IT Systems & Networking, Software & Web Development and Data & Business IT.
The course standards have been set by employers, and created to ensure that participants develop the blend of technical, business and interpersonal skills that are much in demand in the workplace. Organisations across the tech sector have laid down the programmes, facilitated by e-skills UK – the employer body for technology skills.
Helen West, Head of Skills Development, e-skills UK, says:
“The awarding of Tech Industry Gold accreditation to an apprenticeships provider shows that their services satisfy the needs of the UK’s future IT workforce. QA Apprenticeships is the first to achieve the new standard, as their programmes show clear attention and responsiveness to the requirements of the UK’s hiring IT employers.”
During the accreditation of QA Apprenticeships, an employer panel highlighted the following strengths:
- “A strategic, market-led approach, with clear senior management commitment to the quality and responsiveness of apprenticeship delivery”
- “Support for employers, with flexible offers which can be packaged to meet individual employer needs”
- “Thorough processes to engage employers and apprentices from the start”
- “Staff who were clearly committed to the company vision of apprenticeship best-practice”
- “The evidence of, and a clear commitment to, continuous improvement.”
For employers, the Tech Industry Gold accreditation for apprenticeships promises to make it easy to give their new recruits thehighest quality development programmes. Such training will boost apprentices’ productivity quicker and, with firm backing from the tech sector, aims to attract the best and brightest young people to a proven career route.
Ben Pike, Director of QA Apprenticeships, adds:
“We are absolutely delighted to be the first to achieve the accreditation of Tech Industry Gold. From the launch of QA Apprenticeships in 2008, we have made significant investments to ensure that our programmes provide our employers withhighly productive, technically up-to-date apprentices. We believe our unrivalled range of programmes provides employers with flexibility and the opportunity to progress their apprentices through to higher-level qualifications."
“Coupled with our recent Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ grade, Tech Industry Gold is further endorsement of our excellence in apprenticeships training and expertise in designing and delivering IT technology programmes.
“The fact that Tech Industry Gold standards are set by the industry means that prospective apprentices can be confident that what they are learning is what’s required in the workplace, and their employers can be assured that their new recruits will contribute quickly. The additional support also offers apprentices in smaller organisations the chance to develop wider industry awareness that will stand them in good stead in future careers.”
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