Case study transcripts
National Grid
Casey Tallieleu: My background before I came to National Grid was I came straight out of school, and now I’ve moved on to doing a Foundation Degree with Aston University through National Grid. It’s had quite a large impact on my life. There’s a lot of benefits from being in this programme because, firstly, you get all the qualifications without, you know, struggling with debt or anything.
I would recommend this path because it’s a good alternative to going to university, whereas you get pushed in school to go to university or just take a job, this is a good mix of them both.
John Tyler: National Grid has been involved with apprenticeships uh, since it’s formation. More recently we’ve launched and foundation engineer programme, back in 2004, which has involved us producing a Foundation Degree bespoke to our industry, and we’ve done that in terms of working in partnership with our Sector Skills Council and Aston University.
National Grid has a history of continually improving its, um, training schemes. We also gain support from the National Employers’ Service and our Sector Skills Council, particularly in the areas of new educational initiatives we’re launching, such as our Skills Pledge initiative, and also a recent uh, Young Apprenticeship scheme that we launched whereby we’ve got eighteen, um, fourteen to sixteen year olds on a two year programme. Both the Apprenticeship and Foundation Engineering schemes help National Grid in the terms of delivering a fit for purpose individual into the business post the training scheme.
