Reforms boost the staying power of tool-maker's apprentices

A company that struggled to hold on to its trainees has achieved 100% retention of this key group of workers by reforming its apprenticeship programme. Only one of the seven apprentices who joined the R&D/Leverage apprenticeship programme between 2000 and 2006 stayed with the company. But all 11...

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Published inTraining and management development methods Vol. 26; no. 1; p. 501
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bradford Emerald Group Publishing Limited 01.01.2012
Subjects
Apprenticeship
Case studies
Employment
Engineers
Job requirements
Machine tool industry
Polyethylene terephthalate
Reforms
Success
United Kingdom > UK
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ISSN0951-3507

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Summary:A company that struggled to hold on to its trainees has achieved 100% retention of this key group of workers by reforming its apprenticeship programme. Only one of the seven apprentices who joined the R&D/Leverage apprenticeship programme between 2000 and 2006 stayed with the company. But all 11 who have joined the reformed programme, introduced in 2006, remain with the business. The first two to sign up to the new-look scheme are on an engineering foundation degree and hold key jobs in the company. A specialist tool-maker serving the polyethylene terephthalate industry, R&D/Leverage's core business is the manufacture of tooling that produces single-stage bottles and jars for toiletries, cosmetics and household products. The apprenticeship scheme was a regional winner in the latest National Training Awards.
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ISSN:0951-3507