ALTERNATIVES TO UNIVERSITY: SPONSORED DEGREES, SCHOOL LEAVERS AND APPRENTICESHIPSNikki Bunn

About me

•Nikki Bunn•Kendrick Alumni 2012• •Project Manager•Didn’t go to ‘traditional’ University

Why did I choose this?

-£53,330

What I am doing now

Employed 4 days a week

Salary

University 1 day a week

Business Management with IT Degree

Career Development

My career so far• Year 1: Pre-sales and Proposals

• Market Research• Competitor Analysis• Project Management Office • Proposal Management

• Year 2: Business Analyst• European Space Agency • Current Account Switching Service

• Year 3: Project Manager• Team management, project planning, budgeting

risk management

What have been the best bits?• Fantastic career opportunities• Gives you career options • Gives you a head start• Treated as individual with 3 years experience and a degree• Help in recruitment• Working helps with University assignments• Money• Don’t have to find a graduate job

…and the worst…• Very, very hard work• Lose some social aspects of University

So what are the programmes?• Undergraduate Degrees• Professional qualifications e.g. CFAB, ACA, ACCA, AAT• Higher apprenticeships

• Project Management• Management Consulting• Software Development • IT Technician• Accounting/Audit• Tax• Retail Banking

• Engineering• Business Solutions • Business Administration• Sales• Retail Management• Cyber Security

What sorts of jobs are they?

So who offers these types of programmes?

School Leaver Programmes Vs. University

• Round One: Money School Leavers• Round Two: Fun University• Round Three: The Career Ladder School Leavers• Round Four: Choice University• Round Five: Qualifications School Leavers• Round Six: Commitment University

Winners

University School Leavers

?

Useful websites• http://www.allaboutschoolleavers.co.uk• www.notgoingtouni.co.uk• http://

thescholarshiphub.org.uk/blog/sponsored-degrees-uk• http://www.careerpilot.org.uk/info/working-and-learning,-in

cluding-/employer-sponsored-degrees/

• http://www.studentladder.co.uk/School-Leaver-Programmes/school-leaver-programmes.html

THANK YOU

QUESTIONS?