Foundation Apprenticeships: Preparing Young People for the World of Work
Foundation Apprenticeships offer young people valuable work-based learning opportunities to develop their skills and employer connections in order to build their future career pathways.
Learners will now have the option to select a Foundation Apprenticeship as one of their senior phase subject choices and complete the qualification over one or two years in collaboration with local learning provider, such as a college and with an employer.
Skills Development Scotland has developed the Foundation Apprenticeship programme, in partnership with education and industry, which now feature on the senior phase curriculum in most secondary schools in Scotland. Young people can select a Foundation Apprenticeship as one of their subject choices and complete the qualification over one or two years, usually starting in S5 or S6 . This provides them with a real, practical work placement which will give their career a head start and looks great on their CV.
A Foundation Apprenticeship is a chance to try a career out to decide if it’s right for them. Whatever young people want to do after school – straight into work, onto a Modern or Graduate Apprenticeship or to college or university – a Foundation Apprenticeship can open up their options.
Watch this clip to find out more about FAs: youtube.com/scottishapprenticeship
Foundation Apprenticeships are designed by employers to ensure the qualification and skills young people develop throughout are what are needed for the world of work. Employers therefore help shape the next generation of talent and build the skills they require for their future career pathways . At the same time Foundation Apprenticeships allow employers to spot talented, motivated learners who could become their future employees.
For more information on Foundation Apprenticeships visit apprenticeships.scot/foundation or follow @apprentice_scot .
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Download an overview of the key aspects of FAs here: foundation-apprenticeships-positioning-doc-august-2018
