Enhanced apprenticeships
Our tailored training programme, enhanced with modular add-ons, ensures that skills align perfectly with business needs. Designed in collaboration with industry and academia, these modules can be integrated at any stage of the apprenticeship.
What are enhanced apprenticeships?
Enhanced apprenticeships provide employers with the flexibility to customise their apprentices' learning experience by adding modular training options. This ensures that skill development aligns with both industry demands and organisational objectives.
Each apprenticeship standard includes a carefully curated list of modular add-ons, selected by industry-experienced educators. Employers can choose these modules at any stage of the programme to meet their specific business needs.
Our commitment to strengthening UK manufacturing is reflected in our efforts to train hundreds of apprentices and reskill the current workforce. Together, we are building the talent pool essential for the sector’s growth and success.
We continually refine our apprenticeship programmes based on employer feedback, addressing challenges and implementing improvements to ensure training meets your evolving needs.
Our service to employers
- Your apprentice is more likely to succeed with us – We consistently have the highest achievement rates, for engineering and manufacturing apprentices, in the Sheffield City Region.
- Whatever the level of study you need, we have you covered – As part of the University of Sheffield, we offer progression routes from Advanced Apprenticeships level 3, right through to Degree Apprenticeship level 6.
- Industrially experienced teachers – Our industrially experienced teachers and trainers ensure that apprentices develop the skills and knowledge for them to thrive in a modern manufacturing environment.
- We support you and your apprentice – Every apprentice is paired with a dedicated teaching and learning mentor providing pastoral and welfare support, ensuring that apprentices are supported through any challenges they may face.
- Our apprenticeships are shaped and designed by industry – At the heart of our governance, our industry board ensures that our curriculum meets the needs of employers. The board hold the training centre's leaders and managers to account to continuously improve our provision.
- We are engaged in active research – Our degree teachers engage in active research at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), ensuring our degree apprenticeship curriculum is research led, progressive and exposes apprentices to the latest technologies and manufacturing methods in their field of study.
Our end to end recruitment service will make it easier for you to employ the right apprentice.
Whether you want to upskill an existing member of staff or recruit a new member of staff we will undertake all of the necessary assessments to make sure the apprenticeship is right for them.
When recruiting new apprentices we will undertake all the necessary interviews, assessments and vetting to ensure the most appropriate candidates are submitted to your vacancy. You can find out more about the apprentice application process here.
We have a dedicated team with a wealth of experience to take you through employing an apprentice - from recruitment to advice on funding, we can help.
Enhanced apprenticeships let employers tailor training with modular add-ons, ensuring skills align with industry and business needs. Curated by industry and academia, these modules can be added at any stage of the apprenticeship.