The Culham Science Centre-based Oxfordshire Advanced Skills have utilised funding secured by OxLEP to support the future career prospects of ambitious apprentices.
OxLEP secured Local Growth Fund investment towards OAS’s smart factory system, the Cyber-Physical Factory. It’s part of an overall investment worth £530,000 secured by OxLEP towards OAS projects.
The investment is set to enhance the experience for OAS’s cohort of apprentices, each working towards significant careers in engineering-related companies through OAS’s apprenticeship provision.
The new addition offers further top-of-the-range engineering equipment to support OAS’s apprentices and their learning experiences.
This OxLEP-backed project sits alongside £1 billion-worth of investment secured for the county by OxLEP and its partners to-date, not just benefiting individual companies and workforces, but many communities too through a variety of investments.
Opened in September 2019, OAS is managed by apprentice training partner MTC Apprenticeships. MTC’s advanced engineering apprenticeship helps learners develop the skills needed for delivering the technologies of the future in the high-value manufacturing sector.
Its level three, hi-tech engineering apprenticeship programme provides training on the very latest cutting-edge technology, alongside traditional engineering skills, delivered both at our state-of-the-art training centre and within industry.
OAS also offers future skills training through level four to six apprenticeship programmes to help develop the next generation of engineering leaders.
