Diane Stanley & Kathryn Jones: Celebrating 50 years of Project Management in the South West
1. New Initiatives in
Project Management
Education
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Kathryn Jones – Group Project Director - Capability, Babcock
Diane Stanley – Project Management Degree Apprenticeship
(PMDA) Programme Lead, University of Plymouth
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2. • We are an international defence company
• We help our customers around the world to cost effectively
improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most
critical assets
• Our focus countries are the UK, Australasia, Canada, France
and South Africa, with exports to additional markets
• We also operate in, and export to, additional markets
• FTSE 250 company with c. 28,000 employees
Babcock International Group
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Classification:UNCLASSIFIED
3. The University of Plymouth
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3 Queen’s Anniversary Prizes – most recently for microplastics
4th In the world for marine, 15th in the world for climate action
(THE Impact Rankings 2022)
Top 25 for teaching quality
World top 25 for research citations
Classification:UNCLASSIFIED
5. People Strategy - Building a Capability and Capacity
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• Growing our capability
• Career frameworks
• Investing in training, qualifications and
organic growth
• Developing new solutions
• Building our capacity
• Increase diversity
• Agile workforce
• Supporting regional development
Classification:UNCLASSIFIED
6. Project Management Degree Apprenticeship
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Why – for our employees
– Employees can gain a degree whilst working
– Excellent foundation in project management and project
controls, combining theory and on the job learning
Why - for Babcock
› Promote the cross of transfer of knowledge, across Babcock
and externally
› Support the regional development agenda
› Opportunity to work with the University to shape the course and
align with Babcock Project Management approach
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7. • Based on National Apprenticeship Standard
• Partnership with Babcock to design and
develop
• Babcock on the approval panel to sign off
• Learning From Experience - an independent
reviewer from University of Cumbria on the
approval panel
• Approved in 2021
• First cohort in September 2021
The Project Management Degree Apprenticeship
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Classification:UNCLASSIFIED
9. Project Management Degree Apprenticeship
How
• Curriculum designed to deliver the Knowledge Skills and
Behaviours (KSBs) of the Standard.
• Employers can access the Apprenticeship Levy
• On the job training – 20% off the job time to study
Employer commitment
• Tripartite Reviews – Employer/Apprentice/University
• Academic Work Based Visit
• Workplace Mentor
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Classification:UNCLASSIFIED
10. Project Management Degree
Apprenticeship
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How
• Alternate weeks face to face on campus and self
directed learning
• Theory and contextualised learning
• Sharing of good practice across sectors
• Academic staff have extensive project
management experience in industry
• Guest lectures from industry experts
• Contextualised assessments
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