{"id":225,"date":"2014-10-03T07:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T07:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2015-03-23T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T13:13:07","slug":"oxford-university-promoting-apprenticeships-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/oxford-university-promoting-apprenticeships-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University promoting apprenticeships scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emphasising the continued upturn that apprenticeship schemes are now playing as a serious viable route to successful careers, the world renowned university establishment of Oxford are now promoting their apprenticeship scheme. The scheme has been running for the last few years and has grown from three in 2009 to seventeen in 2014 with more to be advertised. The University, who utilise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atg-training.co.uk\/\">ATG Training\u2019s<\/a> facilities for some of their apprenticeships, are the largest employer in Oxfordshire with an estimated annual \u00a3750 million injection into the local economy and their burgeoning apprenticeship scheme shows how seriously the University is looking at apprenticeships to maintain this standing within the area.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_226\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/clivesheperd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-226\" src=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/clivesheperd.jpg\" alt=\"Clive Shepherd, Oxford Univeristy's Apprenticeships Manager\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/clivesheperd.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/clivesheperd-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clive Shepherd, Oxford University&#8217;s Apprenticeship Manager<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University are aiming for all of their seventy eight departments to have at least one apprenticeship running in each. \u201cOur apprenticeships are not just in the traditional technician and engineering subjects\u201d explains Oxford University\u2019s Apprenticeship Manager, Clive Shepherd, \u201cthey are now in the arts, humanities, medical sciences, administration, HR, IT, social and digital media, marketing and a whole host of other subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The University of Oxford runs the apprenticeships for three years with a typical term week being split between four days working in the department that they are learning the apprenticeship and one day spent in college. Recent apprenticeships within the University\u2019s departments have included audio-visual media, Building Services technician, electronics workshop technician, laboratory technician and mechanical workshop technician.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is exciting times for Apprenticeships at the University of Oxford. We see apprenticeships as an attractive route into a professional career, allowing you to earn as you learn\u201d, Mr Shepherd says. Exciting times indeed for young people who want to have the opportunity to be trained at such a leading educational establishment.<\/p>\n<p>We have a number engineering apprenticeship options such as:<\/p>\n<p><strong>HNC &amp; HND in Engineering<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/engineering\/hnc-hnd.php\">http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/engineering\/hnc-hnd.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Electrical\/Electronic Engineering<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/engineering\/btec-3-diploma-electrical.php\">http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/engineering\/btec-3-diploma-electrical.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mechanical Machining &amp; Precision CNC Engineer Advanced Apprenticeship<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/engineering\/mechanical-machining-precision-cnc.php\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/engineering\/mechanical-machining-precision-cnc.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emphasising the continued upturn that apprenticeship schemes are now playing as a serious viable route to successful careers, the world renowned university establishment of Oxford are now promoting their apprenticeship scheme. The scheme has been running for the last few years and has grown from three in 2009 to seventeen in 2014 with more to be advertised. The University, who utilise ATG Training\u2019s facilities for some of their apprenticeships, are the largest employer in Oxfordshire with an estimated annual \u00a3750 million injection into the local economy and their burgeoning apprenticeship scheme shows how seriously the University is looking at apprenticeships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oxford University promoting apprenticeships scheme - Latest ATG Apprenticeships News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The University of Oxford are now actively promoting their apprenticeship schemes and hope to have an apprentice in each of their 78 departments\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/oxford-university-promoting-apprenticeships-scheme\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oxford University promoting apprenticeships scheme - 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