Steve West, Vice-Chancellor, President and Chief Executive Officer at UWE Bristol, explains how higher and degree apprenticeships provide a platform to learn, develop skills and gain confidence.
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“As we are thinking about developing our apprentices for the future, what we must be able to provide for them is a platform, a platform to continue to develop beyond the time that they graduate. And that requires us to give them basic skills, of course, but also to give them the confidence to continue to learn, the confidence to continue to develop and invent for themselves.
They need to be curious; they need to be entrepreneurial. They need to be innovative. That’s what employers are going to require. That’s what we require as a country so that we can continue to develop new possibilities in the employment markets. I have no idea what the world is going to look like in 10, 15, 20 years’ time. And yet we’re creating graduates who are going to be leading in that space.
We need to make sure that we provide them with the platform and the confidence to continue to develop, to reinvent themselves, to accept new knowledge, and then apply it in very innovative ways in the workplace. That’s the beauty of what we can do through the apprenticeship pathways.”
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