Project Management Degree Apprentice Review

As a PM Degree apprentice, I spend one day a week studying at university working towards my level 6 degree. The remainder of the week is spent on placement through yearly rotations. Currently my role involves, key event enablement and critical issue resolution working with stakeholders to ensure we deliver all requirements on time. Daily, I pull data reports and input into dashboards for project status, update enablement packs to be shared to stakeholders and shadow my manager for any further learning opportunities.

I feel there could be some improvement with organisation of co-delivery between the university and the business and alignment to send a collaborative message. The training plan structure is easy to follow and provides an understanding of the apprenticeship scheme.

Placement managers and skills coaches are extremely valuable when providing support. Ensuring workload and wellbeing is good and always pushing you to develop yourself and opportunity to experience and see new things.

I feel the university delivery can be improved to support learning of content and feedback mechanisms for assignment work could be more specific, highlighting specific areas to improve not a generalised comment. Information distribution can result in mixed messages from various tutors, providing confusion and little clarity when completing assignments.

I feel that all content is good and relevant to understanding and can be applied to placement work to feel more confident in role. Some aspects of learning are quite repetitive and maybe over emphasised considering the amount of use within role may be minimal.

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Provides a supported learning environment for individuals starting their career requiring confidence and support. Regular check-ins to ensure you are fulfilled with your development in role. Option to undertake stretch projects and be involved in communities outside of your team.