Apprentices do not pay any course fees – costs are covered by the government and/or employer
Funding models for employers
We can support employers in accessing funding via the apprenticeship levy or provide alternative funding options to minimise or eradicate any up-front cost to the organisation.
There are currently two funding models:
- Fully-funded: Levy paying organisations
- Co-funded: Non-levy organisations and levy who have exceeded their levy contribution.
Fully-funded
If the annual pay bill of your organisation exceeds £3 million you will pay for your apprenticeship training through your levy account. If you have exceeded your levy contribution you will fund apprenticeship training through the co-funded model – to better understand how this will work please contact us.
Employer contribution: Employee salary only
Apprentices contribution: £0
Co-funded
If you are a non-levy paying
organisation (the annual pay bill of your organisation is less than £3 million)
or you are a levy organisation who has exceeded their pot, the government will
financially co-support your apprenticeship training – they will contribute 95
per cent of the costs and the employer will contribute 5 per cent.
Government contribution £13,680
Employer contribution £720
Apprentice contribution £0
The core modules of the programme are:
- Issues and values in planning practice: the
role of planning in society and other policy frameworks together with the
key planning theories through time and the core professional values and
skills.
- Spatial planning and sustainable development: the
institutional framework, policy, assessments, appraisals, and the
sustainability agenda.
- Development management and delivery:
planning law and procedures, development management, appeal process,
finance and project management.
- Environmental Knowledge: from field to
stakeholder: quantitative and qualitative methods used in
the planning process in building an evidence base for policy and
evaluation, together with preparation for the dissertation project.
- Urban Design: theories, methodologies and
practice:
issues facing contemporary and future urban design and place making in
spatial planning.
- Dissertation project:
independent research project.
- Reflective
Review modules: used to capture reflective learning and
development plans for students through the programme and encourage a
life-long learning approach.
In addition, students will take
one specialist module from the following list (subject to availability):
- Coastal urban regeneration: addresses the challenges of managing urban
change in coastal communities ranging from port cities to seaside
resorts.
- Rural planning: considers how planning policies reflect and
affect rural economy, environment and society.
How
will the apprentice be assessed?
All taught modules (20 credits each) are assessed by two
pieces of coursework, usually an essay, report, research project and/or
presentation. The research project/dissertation (60 credits) is assessed by an
independent piece of research linked to the student’s specialism option (up to
15,000 words).