Rating

5.5/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
  • Learning, listening to lectures, mainly provided on a Wednesday and Thursday

    3/10

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • At the start of the year we where in the work shop, here I learnt how to use a large, milking machine, pillar drill and some hand skills

    6/10

  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
  • Hard to tell at the moment as we don’t have much interaction. Teachers have left and so there isn’t much motivation for our weeks

    3/10

  • 4. How well organised/structured is your programme?
  • Not very well, we work towards a HNC on the Thursday but other then that our course has no structure

    2/10

  • 5. How much support do you receive from your employer?
  • We have not yet had lots of interaction with the company but there are people there if we need to talk to them

    5/10

  • 6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
  • When working towards our HNC, oceansgate college trainers provide very high levels of support and go out of their way to help us

    10/10

  • 7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
  • This qualification will help me to understand many important underlying knowledge area for my future role

    10/10

  • 8. Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)
  • No

    5/10

  • 9a. Would you recommend Babcock to a friend?
  • No


  • 9b. Why?
  • I have put no as I am unsure yet, for how the course is going so far I would say no but hopefully when we get into the dockyard next year it will be better and my answer would then be a yes


  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Babcock?
  • Ensure you are motivated to work and keen to get into the engineering world


Details

Higher Level Apprenticeship

Engineering

Plymouth

February 2022


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