National Apprenticeship Week 2024
What is National Apprenticeship Week?
National Apprenticeship Week is coming up on the 5th – 11th of February 2023! This is when leaders from the sector all group together to shout about how valuable apprenticeships are to employers and students. The overarching goal of this theme is reflecting on how the apprenticeships we deliver are helping individuals of all ages gain the skills and experience for their careers and helping employers have a highly skilled workforce. Each day will have a theme throughout the week:
- Monday – Apprenticeships for all
- Tuesday – Employers
- Wednesday – Apprentices
- Thursday – T-Level
- Friday – Celebration
- Saturday and Sunday – The NAW Weekender
How can you get involved in National Apprenticeship Week 2024?
Social Media
The main way you can get by involved is keeping up to date with the Paragon Skills social media channels. You can find all the links here:
Each day we will be posting blogs, and videos and shouting all about apprenticeships. This can be a great tool for smaller businesses to get involved in National Apprenticeship Week simply by sharing our posts with your audience. Make sure your posts make the biggest impact by using all the official hashtags on all your social posts – The hashtags we suggest you follow and include this year are #NAW2023 #SkillsforLife
Make sure you don’t miss out on the biggest event of the year for apprenticeships!
Celebrate your apprentice’s
Good news stories and case studies – Producing a good news story about your apprentice’s success is a tried-and-tested method for celebrating their achievements.
Congratulations cards
A simple but effective idea for celebrating your apprentices’ success is to send them a personalised card when they complete their programme or simply to say well done.
Digital hall of success
Why not dedicate a gallery page on your website to post images of your apprentices with statements about their achievements? Get them to share what have been their biggest challenge and how they overcame them, and what is their stand-out proud moment from their apprenticeship journey so far.
Shout about apprenticeships from a business perspective
Share with your social media follows what you think about apprenticeships and the numerous benefits they offer, how apprenticeships have been utilised to support your training goals, The ways that you see apprenticeship being used to secure skills in the future?
Make a pledge
Making a pledge shows your commitment to apprentices, giving them clear progression opportunities and the chance to increase skills. You can take your pledge further by talking about your plans for taking on more apprentices in the future.
The National Apprenticeship website has a great toolkit where you can find out more about the event here.
If you have any plans for National Apprenticeship Week that Paragon Skills can get involved with drop hello@pgon.co.uk an email.