Economic system Minister Gordon Lyons has launched the 2023 Northern Eire Apprenticeship Awards and is inviting functions to seek out the Apprentice of the 12 months.
Pictured with the Minister are (L-R) Professor Jonathan Heggarty MBE, exterior decide; 2022 Larger Degree Apprentice Award winner, Lewis Connelly; 2022 Apprentice Award winner, Lauren Johnston and Kathryn McCamley, chair of the 2023 judging panel.
The Northern Eire Apprenticeship Awards recognise apprentices, employers and coaching organisations who’ve demonstrated distinctive progress in addition to private achievement and dedication and can culminate in a particular awards ceremony on 29 March 2023.
Launching the Awards, the Minister stated: “I’m delighted to launch the Northern Eire Apprenticeship Awards 2023. Apprentice of the 12 months Awards began again in 2001 and through the years these awards have had a observe report of showcasing and celebrating the depth and high quality of the expertise inside our native apprentices, their employers and coaching suppliers throughout a variety of sectors.
“Growing the native expertise base is a key precedence for me and a cornerstone of our financial restoration. My Division’s 10X Financial Imaginative and prescient and related Expertise Technique set out how we need to equip individuals with the abilities they want throughout the consistently evolving jobs market and assist to construct on Northern Eire’s successes on the worldwide stage. Apprenticeships are integral to this imaginative and prescient.
“It’s important that we rejoice the wonderful work of our apprentices, employers and coaching suppliers and I might encourage everybody who’s working within the wide selection of apprenticeships accessible throughout Northern Eire to share with us their apprenticeship experiences by coming into the Northern Eire Apprenticeship Awards competitors.”
Professor Jonathan Heggarty MBE, Principal and CEO of Stranmillis College Faculty stated: “I’m very a lot trying ahead to being a decide once more this yr. Apprenticeships and Larger Degree Apprenticeships are extraordinarily essential to the way forward for the Northern Eire financial system and supply a incredible alternative for apprentices to ‘earn and be taught’ in all kinds of profession pathways.
“It’s applicable that the expertise, dedication and exhausting work of apprentices, employers and coaching suppliers are recognised by the NI Apprenticeship Awards as soon as extra. I want all candidates the very best and stay up for assembly and talking to our finalists, and listening to of their experiences.”
There are 5 award classes:
Apprentice Award (Ranges 2-3);
Larger Degree Apprentice Award (Degree 4+);
Giant Employer in partnership with their Coaching Supplier Award (employers with 250 workers and over);
Small and Medium Enterprise in partnership with their Coaching Supplier Award (employers with fewer than 250 workers); and,
Excellent Mentor Award.
Functions for the Awards are actually open. The time limit for functions is 12 midday on Friday 18 November 2022.
Extra data together with full particulars on software standards for every of the awards and find out how to apply go to might be discovered at the Northern Eire Apprenticeship Awards 2023 web page on the Division’s web site.
Notes to editors:
1. CAPTION: Economic system Minister Gordon Lyons has launched the 2023 Northern Eire Apprenticeship Awards and is inviting functions to seek out the Apprentice of the 12 months. Pictured with the Minister are (L-R) Professor Jonathan Heggarty MBE, exterior decide; 2022 Larger Degree Apprentice Award winner, Lewis Connelly; 2022 Apprentice Award winner, Lauren Johnston and Kathryn McCamley, chair of the 2023 judging panel.
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