Technical Apprentice Review

Item: Technical Apprentice at Babcock International Group
Rating: 2.4
Author: Anonymous

at Babcock International Group

Level 3 Apprenticeship

Engineering

Bovington Camp

Review Submitted: April 2023

Overall Rating

2.4 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

3/5 - Overview of Role

4/5 - Skills Development

1.6/5 - Structure and Support

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

4/5

Following my mentor and being supervised while carrying out maintenance tasks on a variety of different equipment and vehicles.

To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

2/5

I enjoy my programme a lot with regards to what I work on with my mentors. However, I have not enjoyed how unorganised the programme has been and how little effort the managers put into our own learning. If it was not for the mentors doing work off their own back, I would probably not be working here.

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

4/5

I have learnt many new skills, from using tooling, understanding diagrams to following procedures and health and safety at work.

Structure and Support

How well organised/structured is your programme?

1/5

Very poorly. My managers still do not understand the course I am actually on. They are unsure what our NVQ entails.

How much support do you receive from your employer?

1/5

My mentor gives me a lot of support off their own back. When it comes to sickness and working with you, they are very good. When it comes to help with the apprenticeship, it always falls of deaf errors, they say they will sort things out and never do.

How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?

4/5

Warwickshire college have been great with all the support, especially while at the college. The only issue is that a couple of lecturers can be hard to get hold of when not at college and do not reply to emails much. Apart from that, I would say they have been amazing.

How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?

1/5

The qualification is not related to what I do at work in any way. Apart from carrying out the health and safety course which has helped and 1 course of hand fitting, the rest of them are pointless, for example I have been working on lathes, domestic wiring and PLCs and CAD at college while none of this takes place at work.

Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)

1/5

Not really no, there are no social or sports groups. There is one I know about with a small group, but apart from that, no.

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend Babcock International Group to a friend?

Why?

As stated above, there is no course which relates to what we do at work at this level, at most they should just offer level 2. The apprenticeship has managers changing all the time in which all they care about is getting the levy, and keep costs to a minimum. Though working here has perks, I would not advise using this for an apprenticeship.