Principal Thoughts: Why National Apprenticeship Week matters

Principal Thoughts: Why National Apprenticeship Week matters

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley rounds up UCEM’s National Apprenticeship Week publicity and urges government to deliver on their promises. Apprenticeships are…

National Apprenticeship Week visit round-up

National Apprenticeship Week visit round-up

Many of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) went to visit apprentices and their employers to mark National Apprenticeship Week last week.   We published a summary of the visits and…

Q&A with our Chartered Surveyor apprentice, Bayezid Ahmed: Guest blog by our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officer, David Meilhan

Q&A with our Chartered Surveyor apprentice, Bayezid Ahmed: Guest blog by our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officer, David Meilhan

As part of National Apprenticeship week, I went out to meet Bayezid Ahmed, one of our Chartered Surveyor apprentices on the Project Management pathway. I met Bayezid on site at…

Principal Thoughts: Apprenticeship agenda must be allowed to flourish

Principal Thoughts: Apprenticeship agenda must be allowed to flourish

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley reflects on personnel changes in government and makes the case for apprenticeships to remain high on the…

Principal Thoughts: The apprenticeships agenda a year on (long read)

Principal Thoughts: The apprenticeships agenda a year on (long read)

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley reviews the progress, or lack of, since writing open letters to five government ministers about the apprenticeships…

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Inspiration and innovation

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Inspiration and innovation

Each week, UCEM Information Governance Manager, Lucy Roper points us in the direction of interesting stories from the Built Environment. Having looked at reasons to be cheerful last week, Lucy…

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our AOO, David Meilhan goes on-site with Malcolm Hollis apprentice, Dan Nixon in Watford

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our AOO, David Meilhan goes on-site with Malcolm Hollis apprentice, Dan Nixon in Watford

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, we are sending out four of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) to shadow several apprentices throughout the week. The shadowing opportunities will provide our AOOs…

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Attending an apprenticeship workshop. Guest blog by our Events and Communications Manager, Hannah Peck

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Attending an apprenticeship workshop. Guest blog by our Events and Communications Manager, Hannah Peck

On Tuesday (5 March) I spent the day in London at one of our Surveying Technician Apprenticeship workshops. In my job as Events and Communications Manager I don’t often get…

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Sarah Olliver meets Faithful+Gould apprentices, Tom Collins and Naomi Brown in London

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Sarah Olliver meets Faithful+Gould apprentices, Tom Collins and Naomi Brown in London

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, we are sending out four of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) to shadow several apprentices throughout the week. The shadowing opportunities will provide our AOOs…

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Debi Gaskin-Palmer shadows our Lambert Smith Hampton apprentices, Alex Clifton and Jack Deakin in Lincoln

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Debi Gaskin-Palmer shadows our Lambert Smith Hampton apprentices, Alex Clifton and Jack Deakin in Lincoln

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, we are sending out four of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) to shadow several apprentices throughout the week. The shadowing opportunities will provide our AOOs…

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Reasons to be cheerful

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Reasons to be cheerful

Each week, UCEM Information Governance Manager, Lucy Roper points us in the direction of interesting stories from the Built Environment. This week, Lucy decides to give news about Brexit a…

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our AOO, Bethan Watts shadows our Savills apprentice, Arlo Francis in London

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our AOO, Bethan Watts shadows our Savills apprentice, Arlo Francis in London

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, we are sending out four of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) to shadow several apprentices throughout the week. The shadowing opportunities will provide our AOOs…