Turn an employee into a graduate while they keep working
A full degree, funded through your levy. One day a week.
Turn an employee into a graduate while they keep working
A full degree, funded through your levy. One day a week.
At a glance
Who it's for
Employers of any size, with an employee already working in the role they’d train in.
Cost
Funded through your Apprenticeship Levy. Non-levy payers receive a government contribution. You pay their salary.
Timescales
Several years, ending in a full Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
Best suited to
Developing someone you already employ, rather than recruiting new.
What's involved
Your employee studies for a full Bachelor’s or Master’s degree while continuing to work for you. They are released for at least one day a week to study, sit assessments, and are signed off as competent in the subject at the end.
You are assigned a dedicated account manager who acts as your point of contact at every stage, from working out which programme fits, through recruitment and enrolment, to completion.
Working with us, you can:
- Fill a skills gap without recruiting
- Use levy funding you’re already paying
- Help shape the programme your apprentice studies
- Keep the person in productive work throughout
- Retain someone who might otherwise leave to study
What you need to provide
A contract of employment
The apprentice must be your employee, on a formal contract.
A salary
You pay it.
One day a week
Released from their usual role to study.
An eligible role
They must already be working in the role they are training for.
How it works
1. Tell us the skills gap
We’ll help you work out whether an apprenticeship is the right route and which programme fits.
2. Meet your account manager
One point of contact from here on.
3. Sort the funding
We’ll help you access your levy, or arrange the government contribution if you don’t pay it.
4. Enrol your apprentice
5. Study alongside work
One day a week, with assessments throughout and a final sign-off.
Before you enquire
Your apprentice must already be employed by you and working in the role they’ll train in. This route develops existing staff; it isn’t a way of recruiting someone new.
They’ll need at least one day a week away from their usual work, for the duration of the programme. That is several years, not several months.
You pay their salary throughout. Levy funding covers the training, not the person.
Ask us anything about degree apprenticeships
Tell us the skills gap you’re trying to fill and we’ll tell you whether this is the right route.
