Foundation Apprenticeship in Construction
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About...
This Foundation Apprenticeship introduces pupils to skills needed for a career in construction. You'll learn a broad range of hands-on, practical skills and gain an understanding what is required within a trade or technician background to enable you to decide if a career in construction could be for you.
Level SCQF 4 and 5
Delivery Face-to-Face | Friday, 10am to 3.30pm
Location Inverness Campus
Duration 1 Year
Course content...
The course aims to:
- Inspire and enthuse learners to consider a career in the built environment or construction crafts sectors.
- Give learners the opportunity to gain a broad knowledge and understanding of, and develop skills in, the built environment and construction crafts sectors. Broad knowledge and skills that should be developed as learners undertake the qualification are:
- (a) Study skills, including basic processes, materials and terminology.
- (b) The ability to define and solve problems.
- (c) Ability to be flexible while working alone or co-operatively with others.
- (d) Oral, written and graphical skills.
- (e) Practical craft skills and dexterity.
- (f) Numerical and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills.
- Support progression to a more specialised SCQF level 6 academic or vocational qualification.
- Give learners the potential opportunity in due course, to enter employment within a wide range of entry-level job roles across the built environment or construction crafts sectors.
- Develop construction craft skills to enable completion of a range of practical construction activities.
- Identify and take account of some of the consequences directly relating to sustainability.
- Develop a basic awareness of the construction industry in terms of work sectors, careers and types of buildings found in built environments in the UK.
- Use, with guidance, given stages of construction affecting health and safety, construction materials and carry out construction methods.
You will also complete a work-based challenge.
Entry requirements
Level 4
- No formal entry requirements. Learners should be capable of working independently at this level.
Level 5
- One pass at National 4.