TNT launches apprenticeship scheme

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TNT has launched an express parcels apprenticeship scheme and is taking on 40 young people in the first year.

The scheme will provide full-time work and training for over 18-year-olds at TNT’s parcel distribution centre in Atherstone and hub in Kingsbury.

Apprentices undergo a 12 month programme of work which combines their role as loading bay operatives with formal college training at North Warwickshire & Hinckley College in Nuneaton.

At the end of the year they will emerge with a nationally recognised qualification and the opportunity of a full-time job.

“The Express Parcels Apprenticeship Scheme provides excellent career opportunities for young, sometimes, disenfranchised people,” said

Andrew McDonald, general manager talent, said: “We are currently focusing on roles at Atherstone and Kingsbury but, if successful, the scheme will be rolled out across the UK, creating hundreds of jobs for apprentices for a number of years.”

the modules the apprentices will cover during their training include parcel lifecycle and product awareness, dock safety, dangerous goods, backshift and nightshifts and pick-up and delivery.

[DGP1]

Unlike an actual profession (plumbing, electrical, brick laying etc.) these apprenticeships are just an excuse for cheap labour which they'll use for a year for all the normal work then get rid of them for another intake of cheap labour.

[Talell]

I have a NVQ in mail services (apparently), and i still work for royal mail 2 years later

[DGP1]

I have a NVQ in mail services (apparently), and i still work for royal mail 2 years later

OK, maybe RM are different but what did you learn for your NVQ that you wouldn't have learned just doing the job

[Talell]

Basically everything.

Communication skills, public speaking and 'commercial awareness' courses that you get sent away on cover the criteria to make the NVQ 'worthwhile'.

Defeats the purpose of the NVQ, since a NVQ is just a certificate to show you have enough experience on the job to perform the thing to that level.