Objectives
Benefits For Employers
Apprenticeships can help employers to:
- Address skills shortages
- Recruit and retain excellent people
- Increase skill sets
- Improve efficiency and productivity
- Improve employee motivation
- Identify future team leaders and managers
Benefits For Learners
Apprenticeships provide the opportunity to work whilst gaining nationally recognised qualifications. Learners can benefit from:
- Training and assessment which is focussed on individual needs
- On the job training and assessment
- Qualifications designed to prove competence to perform a task or role
- Nationally recognised qualifications and framework
- Transferable skills
- Career progression
- Taking control of personal development
- Communicating clearly and confident
Method
Delivery models are flexible and can be tailored to suit the needs of the learner and employer. Learners will be allocated an assessor who will offer one to one support in the work place. The apprenticeship framework includes the following:
- Level 3 in Business Administration
- Maths, English and ICT
- Employment Rights and Responsibilities
- Personal Learning and Thinking Skills
Business Administration Level 3
Learners take five mandatory units in the level 3 Business Administration qualification. The first unit looks at personal and professional development, helping the learner to identify their own development needs and plan how to fulfill them. The second unit looks at communication in a business environment and the three remaining units of this section delve into the theory behind business.
Learners can then work with their employers and Merit Skills to find the best-fit from the wide selection of optional units offered in the qualification.
Pre Course Requirements
Apprenticeships are available to anyone over the age of 16 years.
At level 3 learners can demonstrate knowledge and skills to support the activities at level 2 as well as managing tasks and/or processes or monitoring and evaluating systems and processes contributing to the overall effectiveness of the organisation.
Entry Requirements
Level of English commensurate to the qualification and suitable job role. Working in a suitable environment to generate the evidence required to achieve the qualification level.
Who Should Attend?
Bespoke