- New Location, New Courses
From August 2010 BGT will be operating from new locations and will be
running new courses.
The courses will be run from:
- College Green (Business Admin)
- Ashley Down (Build Craft, Engineering, Discovery)
- Other sites TBC (Discovery)
The courses available are:
- 12 week 'Kickstart' courses in the four areas, which
will help you progress to further training or employment opportunities
- 6 month 'Kickstart' Apprenticeship courses, which can possibly lead to
an apprenticeship.
More information can be found on the Foundation Learning and Apprenticeship Pages
- Business Improvement Techniques
Steve Beck and the MP for south Gloucestershire Steve Webb presenting certificates for Business Improvement
Techniques level 2 to successful candidates at Alderley Systems, Wotton under
Edge Gloucestershire. All candidates worked as a team to implement Business
Improvement Techniques to help efficiency and productivity within
today's demanding production environment. Candidates
Anthony Lau, Stuart Rogers, Claire Allen, Darren Chapman, Dominic Vincent, Mike Gardiner
and Stuart Rogers
- Apprentice meets Secretary of State for Health
Nikki Tomlinson a BGT Business Admin Apprentice working at Southmead Hospital
met the Secretary of State for Health, Andy Burnham when she went to Westminster
with the NHS NVQ Co-ordinator, Yvonne Greenwood
- Advanced Engineering funding
£95 pound per week to assist engineering companies to take on an advanced level 3 engineering apprentice, Smurfitkappa have
secured the funding from the LSC as the lead employer and have a partnership with Brunel and Gordano to manage the contract.
- South West Engineering apprenticeship competition
Katie Webber from HepcoMotion in Tiverton, has won second place in the final year
category of the EEF South West Engineering apprenticeship competition held
at the SS Great Britain, this was an outstanding award to win as the
competition was very strong, Katie came a very close second to the first
place winner, she is now employed as a valued member of staff at Hepco
working on CAD systems and new publications to be used by the company,
a credit to apprenticeships and her company.
- Advanced Engineering Apprentices Awards Ceremony
The awards evening took place on Thursday 2nd July to celebrate the
success of the Advanced Engineering Apprentices attending the
City of Bristol College engineering centre. Paul Abrahams, Operations
Support Lead for Defence Aerospace, Rolls-Royce was the Guest Speaker and
Awards presenter.
Brunel and Gordano apprentices were successful in 3 of the 8
categories. Well done to all the winners at the start of careers
in the engineering world.
Kurt White - Crown Pet Foods
- Mechanical Maintenance Engineer
Chinasa Mmonu Membu - Rolls Royce
- Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Jason Burrows - Rolls Royce
- Production Engineer - Mechanical
Andy Maggs - Abbey Wood
- Production Engineer - Constructive
Sam Hughes - Abbey Wood
- Production Engineer - Electronic
Alex Watts - Abbey Wood
- Most Improved Maintenance Engineer
Jack Battgato - First Great Western
- Most Improved Production Engineer
Laura David - Abbey Wood
- Expansive Apprenticeships - Good practice
According to a report published by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme,
published in a booklet "Towards Expansive Apprenticeships", the way that
we deliver our apprenticeship programmes at BGT represents good practice.
To quote the report:
"Apprentices can find their experience ranges from the
expansive to the restrictive. A restrictive apprenticeship is intended to
produce profitable workers fast. It does not allow them time to study deeply,
see the business from all angles, or reflect on what they are learning. An
expansive apprenticeship, by contrast, does all this, and helps produce
employees who can contribute to many areas of business success throughout
a worthwhile career."
All of the Apprenticeships programmes that we run at BGT are expansive.
A new partnership has been set up with Remploy to provide vocational
training for candidates with disabilities.
15 new starts with ThyssenKrupp, Elevator lift engineers
25 new starts with Palmer and Harvey warehousing and storage
2 new starts Allied lifts, engineering
4 new starts St Gobain, Warehousing