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| Port of Liverpool takes largest batch of apprentices for 20 years | Port of Liverpool takes largest batch of apprentices for 20 years |
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| Twelve new apprentices don't make a summer but it's interesting to learn that the Port of Liverpool has taken its largest batch of them for 20 years. | Twelve new apprentices don't make a summer but it's interesting to learn that the Port of Liverpool has taken its largest batch of them for 20 years. |
| All are joining the port on a four-year course in either electrical or mechanical engineering, the first year spent in college and the next three training on the job with supplementary college work as part of the curriculum. | All are joining the port on a four-year course in either electrical or mechanical engineering, the first year spent in college and the next three training on the job with supplementary college work as part of the curriculum. |
| This is a proper apprenticeship like the indentures I signed with the editor of the Bath & Wilts Evening Chronicle many years ago, each of us keeping our half with its unique jagged tear – the indentures of the document's title. Bit parties have obligations and the system encourages mutual respect. | This is a proper apprenticeship like the indentures I signed with the editor of the Bath & Wilts Evening Chronicle many years ago, each of us keeping our half with its unique jagged tear – the indentures of the document's title. Bit parties have obligations and the system encourages mutual respect. |
| The port's apprenticeship will use the Maritime and Engineering College North West in Birkenhead, with the course – whose entry was based on competitive interviews and aptitude tests – progressing to an NVQ3 by the end of the third year and an HNC qualification by the fourth. | The port's apprenticeship will use the Maritime and Engineering College North West in Birkenhead, with the course – whose entry was based on competitive interviews and aptitude tests – progressing to an NVQ3 by the end of the third year and an HNC qualification by the fourth. |
| One of the twelve has extra interest. Megan Pickering who is 19 and from Runcorn, is the first woman ever to be an apprentice at the Port of Liverpool. That fact takes some absorbing, given how long the port and the human race have been going. Let's hope for more. | One of the twelve has extra interest. Megan Pickering who is 19 and from Runcorn, is the first woman ever to be an apprentice at the Port of Liverpool. That fact takes some absorbing, given how long the port and the human race have been going. Let's hope for more. |
| She's come out of sixth form college and says of her mechanical engineering debut: | She's come out of sixth form college and says of her mechanical engineering debut: |
| The size of the port is just breath taking. It's not until you get on site and see the scale of activity that you realise just how much machinery is involved in the day to day operation of the port. It's a very exciting prospect for a trainee engineer. | The size of the port is just breath taking. It's not until you get on site and see the scale of activity that you realise just how much machinery is involved in the day to day operation of the port. It's a very exciting prospect for a trainee engineer. |
She will see work start on the port's £300 million deep water container terminal, Liverpool 2, which is due to go live in 2015 and aims to create 5000 jobs over two decades. With her colleagues, she is a port employee from the start of the course with salary increases built into the apprenticeship structure. Worth thinking about in the current student fees climate, as she says. | She will see work start on the port's £300 million deep water container terminal, Liverpool 2, which is due to go live in 2015 and aims to create 5000 jobs over two decades. With her colleagues, she is a port employee from the start of the course with salary increases built into the apprenticeship structure. Worth thinking about in the current student fees climate, as she says. |
| To be able to get this kind of education, and get paid for it, is amazing. Some people go to university and all they come out with is debt. I'm getting all of this – and a livelihood – for free. | To be able to get this kind of education, and get paid for it, is amazing. Some people go to university and all they come out with is debt. I'm getting all of this – and a livelihood – for free. |
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