The new Diploma in Engineering will meet the
future skills needs of your business. It’s a new ground-breaking
qualification that will teach young people about engineering in
ways that relate to work.
Engineering businesses like yours have
informed its contents, and it teaches important work skills,
showing young people how exciting, creative and challenging
engineering can be.
The Diploma in Engineering will be taught by
local partnerships of schools, colleges and businesses. There are
different levels of Diploma for students of all abilities.
The Diploma needs you and your business to
bring its learning to life.
The benefits to your company are:
- positive image and increased awareness
- a larger local pool of new engineering recruits
- potential marketing and PR opportunities
- staff development
- better networking and more business opportunities
- fresh thinking from young people to help with company
problems
You can get involved in different ways, doing
as much or as little as your company resources allow. You can:
- visit a
school
- provide
materials
- run a workshop
- help with
projects
- have a workplace tour
- be a
mentor
- go to a careers event
- offer a teacher
placement
- provide work shadowing
- provide work
experience
- take part in a lesson
- or anything else
Many businesses, both small and large, are
already involved:
- Finnveden Engineering
- JCB
- Jackson Civil Engineering
- Rolls Royce
- Polestar
- RWE npower
- Delphi Diesels
- Toyota
- Paktronic
- Honda
- and many more
The Diploma in Engineering is also actively
supported by many professional engineering organizations, such as
IMechE, IET, ECUK, Stemnet and many others.
To get involved, call Semta Customer Services
on 0845 643 9001 or click here to email diplomainengineering@semta.org.uk.
We will link you up with the local partnerships who will be
teaching the Diploma so that you can make it work for you.
Click here for an Employers' leaflet giving a summary of the
Diploma in Engineering.
Click here for a
guide to the Diploma in Engineering, showing how businesses can get
involved.
Click here to link to the Government's Diploma website for
Employers.
Click here for an
Employers' booklet giving general information about all Diplomas,
created by the Government.
Click here to link to a Government video showing what employers are
saying about Diplomas, and why they're getting involved.