On Monday 9 September the University welcomed 90 learners from the UK\u2019s first degree-level economics apprenticeship programme to its Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n
A partnership between the University and the Government Economic Service (GES)<\/a>, the Professional Economist Degree Apprenticeship<\/a> will create new routes to careers in the Civil Service and a wide range of other employers for young people who would prefer to study for a degree whilst working at the heart of government, the regulatory sector and in commerce.<\/p>\n The apprenticeship standard on which the programme is based was developed by a group of economist employers that included HM Treasury, the Bank of England, as well as a range of consultancies and third sector organisations.<\/p>\n Kent\u2019s School of Economics<\/a>, in conjunction with its Centre for Higher and Degree Apprenticeships<\/a>, will deliver the programme.<\/p>\n Between 9 and 13 September the learners from GES, Civil Aviation Authority, Bank of England, Jacobs, Ofcom, Environment Agency, Arup and Northamptonshire County Council will meet with University staff, a variety of chief economists from their employers and begin their academic studies.<\/p>\n The Professional Economist Degree Apprenticeship is a four-year, Level 6, degree apprenticeship programme. Upon successful completion of the programme, learners will receive a BSc (Hons) in Economics (Professional Economist), a Professional Economist Apprenticeship Certificate, and four-years\u2019 of relevant work experience.<\/p>\n Applications reopen again during December 2019. Further information can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n A list of organisations participating in the next programme will be published shortly on the Centre for Higher and Degree Apprenticeships\u2019 LinkedIn<\/a>, Twitter <\/a>and Facebook <\/a>channels.<\/p>\n -ENDS-<\/p>\n Original article<\/a> by Gary Hughes<\/a> on University of Kent News Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Monday 9 September the University welcomed 90 learners from the UK\u2019s first degree-level economics apprenticeship programme to its Canterbury campus. A partnership between the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178771],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}