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1. Aerospace Trailblazer Group
Mark Maudsley
Chief Executive Officer
GTA England
Nigel Austin
Apprentice Capability and Development
Manager
Military Air &Information, BAE Systems

2. Why Get Involved?
1903 2013

3. 4-11 11-16 16-18 18-21 21+
•Ambassadors/Governors (across 4-18 age) 845
appointees in schools/colleges (602 male, 243 female),
Schools Roadshow – (9-13) 257 school visits engaging
over 34,000 young people, cost £305k
•213k young people seen roadshow since 2005
•Teacher and pupil education content (9-13) cost £21k
•Royal International Air Tattoo - £40k
•Work experience – (14-16 age)
828 work experience placements, 610 male, 218 female.
251, 1 day (145 male, 106 female), 828, 1 or 2 weeks (465
male, 112 female)
•Big Bang £150k
•Wise £8k
•Smallpeice Trust £20k
•EDT £20k
•Arkwright Trust £15k
•Furness Academy - £40k
•Air Cadets £15k
•Craft Apprenticeships (16-21 age) – total 471 over 3 years,
employment & training cost £13.348m
•Technician Apprenticeships (16-21 age) – total 301 over 3
years, employment & training cost £8.530m
•E-learning 32,769 people took 430,385 training
sessions, total cost £480k
•Schools Aerospace Challenge - £10k
•Prince’s Trust - £75k
•Skills Show - £120k
•RIAT - £50k
•CBI Conference £35k
•Roundtable with The Times & The Telegraph Guardian
£80k
•Armed Forces Day £5k
•Advertising & PR costs for apprenticeships £50k
•Sponsored Students – 32 @ £1,500 - £48k
•Industrial Placements – 25 x £19,500 - £487.5k
30 Preferred Universities for recruitment
(61 university partners for research in UK)
•Royal Academy of Engineering Awards £18k
•Graduate recruitment & development – 126
grads & 23 industrial placements, £831k. FLDP – 8
Graduates, 2 IPs, (£1.2m pa) Sigma (£1.4k pa)
•GDF Salaries – 240 @ £26k – 6.2m
•Graduate Conference – 210 attendees - £85.9k
•DY Programmes - £2.4m
•Strategic & Science university research
partnerships £7.3m
•Business Unit training costs – c. £33m
Why Get Involved?
BAE Systems Education/Learning Impacts by Age
Notes:
1) Total of above commitments: £76.3m
2) Government provides £13.348m towards the investment in Craft Apprentice training and £8.530m pa for Technician Apprentice training.
3) Investments shown are for 2013
Age Range

4. Why get involved?
What is a GTA –
• employer owned and led co-operative;
• Not for Profit limited by guarantee;
• some are registered charities
• Holistic workforce development service
Estimated 40 GTAs from 150
GTA England has 28 GTA members
Representing some 18,500 employers many SMEs
11,5000 Apprentices

5. How did we get involved?
BAE Systems GTA

6. Sector Engagement
• Large Companies already keen to participate, recognising the
importance of generating something which meets the needs of
Industry.
• SME representation through links developed by “Employer Ownership
Pilot” (EOP)
• Engineering Institutions keen to drive alignment of Standards, to UK-
SPEC requirements.
• Training Providers and Colleges
• GTA England involvement – standards; SME consultation

7. Aerospace Trailblazer Group
Large
Employers
Awarding
Organisations
SME
Professional
Institutions
GTA England
NFEC

8. Aerospace Trailblazer Group – Notable Achievements and Progress to Date
Achieved
• First Standard published, for Aerospace Manufacturing Fitter.
• Successfully challenged requirement for full Apprenticeship grading.
• Awarding Organisations working together to produce common structures,
modules, and Grading criteria.
• Alignment of Apprenticeship programme to criteria for achieving professional
registration (Eng Tech at level 3).
• Assessment model submitted and accepted, answers provided to BIS feedback
Current Work
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• Next 2 Standards being developed in parallel :
• Aerospace Electrical Fitter
• Aerospace Machinist.
• Occupations at Higher Level submitted for phase 3 development.
(currently awaiting feedback from BIS)

9. • Rationalisation of Units (Knowledge and Competence), better relating to practical
elements. (EUCs)
• AOs working together to create consistent qual’s with common approach to grading.
• Standalone ‘Foundation Phase’ qual’ acting as gateway to Development Phase.
• Minimum entry level of Grade C GCSE (or Equivalent) for Maths and English
Removes Functional Skills
• Inclusion of a mandatory Behavioural Competence element (Removes ERR and
PLTS)
Expected Employee Behaviours:
Strong work ethic Dependability and responsibility
Positive attitude Team player
Effective communication Adaptability
Honesty and Integrity Self motivation
Personal commitment
• Independent final assessment by Professional Engineering Institutions.
Important to note that these changes relate to Aerospace Sector only
Key changes in new Standards

10. And the future including challenges?
• An evolving partnership with government - BIS/ SFA
• Need for wider involvement of stakeholders
• Dangers in a lack of appropriate Governance…
• Election 2015