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Each month we email a flyer to schools promoting apprenticeship programmes, featuring our apprentices and employers and other information that may be of interest to careers teachers. Here is this our flyer for January.

A happy & healthy New Year to everyone we have worked with and wishing success in 2022 to you all.

We attend many careers events in schools and more and more, year 11’s are not invited to attend – particularly if the school has a 6th form. I can appreciate that schools have had huge cuts in funding and encouraging students to join their 6th form helps with their revenue stream, but denying year 11’sContinue reading “More schools need to promote apprenticeships as well as Uni.”

We trained some of the Sigta team in emergency first aid last week. Really informative course delivered by our first aid tutor Veronica Langford. A really enjoyable day as Veronica made it interesting, practical and fun! Pictured left to right: Darryl Kingshott, Pauline Jones, Ali Foxwell, Tony Pearce, John Barton and Dave Underwood.

Congratulations to our Manufacturing apprentices Izaac Small and Owen Hawes for passing their EAL Level 3 Diploma in Machining with distinctions! They have been with Kurt J. Lesker Company for 3 years whilst pursuing their HNC’s in Mechanical Production of which they have a further 2 years to complete. They have contributed so much toContinue reading “Kurt J Lesker Sigta apprentices pass with distinctions”

The following article appeared in The Independent in 2016. The number of applicants for apprenticeships fall each year – this could be because apprentice wages are not keeping up with inflation. New research finds young people think their pay as apprentices would be less than £200 per week – the average is £257 Researchers foundContinue reading “School leavers ‘put off apprenticeships over misconceptions about pay’”

An important new incentive for employers in East Sussex.

Industry Champions are volunteers from any level and any sector of the world of work, who come into a local school or college to support young people as they prepare for the world of work. You could be asked to talk about your careers journey and industry, online or face-to-face.

Engineering & Manufacturing is critical to the future of the green economy. Minecraft is the most played game in the world. We are using it to inspire the next generation of greener engineers. Click on the image below to find out more.