Projects

Research project that looks at the possible routes into Higher Education from Apprenticeships, maps possible routes and discovers how progression is viewed by apprentices.

CASE STUDY: The project mapped and scoped the availability and take up of Advanced Apprenticeship across all the LLN’s curriculum areas; mapped HE level provision in the LLN partner institutions against Advanced Apprenticeship provision in all the curriculum areas; examined admissions policy, publicity materials and practice in relation to applications from those taking the Advanced Apprenticeship route.  The research was led by Alison Fuller and Julie Wintrup at the University of Southampton.

WHO IS IT FOR?: All curriculum groups and relevant FECs / HEIs and employers

ABOUT: The project aims were pursued via a methodology consisting of desk research and key informant interviews and in two overlapping stages. The first stage was mainly concerned with mapping Advanced Apprenticeships within the seven curriculum areas, establishing how many apprentices are ‘in learning’ and who has completed the relevant AA programmes and their characteristics. This project also identified employers providing AA places in the relevant curriculum areas. The second stage was mainly concerned with HE provision and admissions, focusing on the identification of the available provision and admissions practices (FD and Bachelor degree) within the seven curriculum areas in the partner institutions that would be suitable destinations for those successfully completing AAs.

CONTACT: Professor Alison Fuller at a.fuller@soton.ac.uk

Progress Reports

June 2009