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Schemes for GCSE and A-level Students
The Engineering Education Scheme: Benefits
All those involved in
developing the projects sponsoring
companies, company engineers, schools,
teachers and students benefit from
participation in the Engineering Education
Scheme.
Benefits for companies and company engineers
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Using the Scheme to
pilot low-risk management and training
programmes for younger staff and gaining
accredited Continuing Professional
Development for company engineers.
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Tackling a genuine
company engineering problem, which could
lead to an improvement in a process or a
patented product.
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Generating recruiting
opportunities through a greater awareness of
student capabilities in relation to company
prospects.
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Introducing company
methods and values to potential graduate
trainees of high ability in a market where
competition for the best young engineering
talent is intensifying.
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Raising the company
profile and image in the local community
through contact with students, their schools
and families.
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Strengthening links
with education and enhancing teachers'
knowledge of engineering.
I was surprised on
reflection to realise just how many specific
skills were involved in selecting and
leading a project group. The main benefits I
perceive in my own personal development are
from the experience it gave me in
interviewing, leading, developing the skills
of students, delegating project management
and preparing presentations.
Janet Freeman
Company Engineer, Nuclear Electric
Benefits for schools and teachers
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Giving teachers
real-world experience of industry, which
aids professional development and has useful
spin-offs elsewhere in the school
curriculum.
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Building long-term
links with a local industrial partner.
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Gaining positive
publicity for the school and providing a
point of pride and motivation with which
parents and fellow students can identify.
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Giving enhanced
careers advice on engineering to able
students unsure of which direction they
should take.
One of the main aims
of the Scheme is precisely that it should be
attractive to the most able students, many
of whom in the past have not put engineering
as one of their career choices.
Michael Duffy
Formerly Headteacher, King Edward VI School
in Morpeth
Benefits for students
Gaining an insight
into the creativity and opportunities of the
real world of engineering.
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Building long-term
links with a local industrial partner.
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Developing research,
presentation and communication skills.
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Close contact with
company engineers and other staff.
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Discovering
engineering as a stimulating and worthwhile
university subject and career.
The Engineering
Education Scheme was my first introduction
to the application of a subject. It taught
me that all the knowledge I had accumulated
at school would eventually be applied to
everyday life.
Sarah Garrick
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