A library of engineering booklets, videos, career stand, career presentation material, aimed at young people and available to companies free of charge or on a loan basis.

Contact Mary Ball, Education and Training Adviser

Tel: 01162 849746

Presentation materials and a video are available on loan

Kato-Entex Ltd

UEF Aerospace

Eminox Ltd

Rolls Royce PLC

ABB Daimler Benz Transportation Ltd

Timson Ltd

Alstom Automation Ltd

Is a scheme to help member companies to get the best apprentices available, free of charge by working with the East Midlands Career Service.

Potential apprentices indicate which companies they are interested in and complete an application form, which is sent to the company.

The application forms are sent to the EEF, who forward it to the selected companies.

Members are requested to complete a form indicating the potential number of apprentices they may wish to recruit.

All potential apprenticeships will be published via a leaflet/web page.

This will be mass circulated to young people throughout the East Midlands during early 1999.

The EEF have been closely involved from the inception with the design, development and implementation of the Engineering Manufacturing Modern Apprenticeship.

It offers young people an excellent preparation for an engineering career leading to an NVQ level 3 or higher.

The EEF East Midlands Association allocate an annual bursary spread over a four year period, totalling £1,000 per apprentice

Member companies are given the opportunity to enter as many first year apprentices as they wish, by completing an application form.

Application form available from: Mary Ball

Training & Education Adviser

EEF East Midlands Association

Aistom Centre, Cambridge Road, Whetstone,

Leicester LE8 6LH

The Apprentice(s) are asked to submit a written assignment to the EEF East Midlands Association. The assignments are judged by a panel of employers.

In addition an EEF representative will visit the company to interview the potential winners.

The final decision is based on the written assignment and the interview report.

Winning apprentices come from the following companies:

Brush Electrical Machines Ltd

Slack & Parr Ltd

Rolls Royce plc

Desford Tubes Ltd

GNVQ Scholarship link students and teachers with local employers to provide a real context for projects and assignments.

The selection criteria for the Engineering Employers Federation Scholarship is all students enrolled onto an Advanced Engineering GNVQ, minimum grade C in GCSE English, Mathematics and a Science subject.

Companies have the opportunity to assign a workplace project to a GNVQ student. This is monitored by the EEF representative and the college.

Each student can apply for the GNVQ Scholarship regional prize of £250.00 and subsequently national prize of £750.00.

The companies involved in the scheme benefit by linking direct to a student, who undertakes a specific work based project.

Colleges which offer Advanced Engineering GNVQ, students are requested to complete an application form to apply for the scholarship scheme.

The EEF interview each student and select a number based on the interview report.

Students are linked to a company, with a one week placement and workbased project. This is monitored by an EEF representative.

The projects are judges by a panel of employers.

Charles Keene College of Further Education

Premier Screw & Repetition

Alstom Automation plc

Bevans Holdings Ltd

A partnership support programme for primary schools through the resource (human and material) of an Engineering related company.

To provide support for the National Curriculum in Design & Technology.

A make and Build construction kit, and EEF Technology Tree Game. Plus a set of Personal Protective Equipment to be loaned out to schools.

The company can contact the EEF to loan the equipment to a local school.

It will enable a partnership to be established with the company and school.

The purpose of the game is to help the children focus their thoughts and to measure their perceptions about engineering. The game consists of an awareness survey and a number of quality acetate pictures and quiz sheets. The survey can be conducted both prior to the children’s involvement in the scheme and afterwards.

The quiz game can be implemented by a teacher to support the classroom activity, or by an Engineer to support his/her talk.

Wise outlook is a joint Engineering Council, EEF and Engineering and Marine Training (EMTA) initiative run under the WISE umbrella.

Companies can be involved by arranging a half day visit to their company.

The visit would include:

• Briefing on the company
• Tour of the factory
• Input from a female engineer (if possible)

Representatives from the company to attend student presentation at the end of the three day programme. (If possible a woman engineer)

Year in Industry is aimed at providing post ‘A’ Level students a years project secondment to an industrial firm before they decide on their appropriate degree course.

The EEF East Midlands will assist a company to provide a student, by working with colleges and universities.

The programme has well established links.

Companies should contact Nigel Chubb, Director and Chief Executive of the LEF East Midlands Association for further details.

The year runs from September to August.

Companies must provide a structured and approved training programme for the student. A Year in Industry support tutor is involved in the programme.