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Designation/Project-Title:
The Royal Academy of Engineering "Best" programme
Homepage:
http://www.raeng.org.uk
Project-Number:
Actual date:
(of the information)
06/01/2002
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The project is:
a national project
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Co-ordinating person:
The Royal Academy of Engineers
Address:
29 GreatPeterStreet,Westminster,London. SW1P 3LW
E-Mail:
burchj@raeng.co.uk
Tel/Fax:
+44 20 7272 2688 Fax:+44 20 7233 0054
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Contact person:
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Participating countries (In which countries the project takes/took place?)
Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Statistics:
number of participating persons / institutions:
Engineering Education Scheme: About 500 post 16 year olds per year. The Year in Industry By Competition. Number selected varies each year Smallpeice Engineering Careers Foundation Year Not Known Headstart Not Known.
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Short description:
      Short description of the Programme:

      The Royal Academy of Engineering: has taken the oversight of a number of schemes developed by different charities and organisations and with significant support from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation .The RAE has established The Best programme. The programme promotes schemes at pre-university level to encourage and give insight into graduate careers in engineering. Four schemes are described below.

      The Engineering Education Scheme: Post 16year pupils following appropriate advanced level courses and whose schools and colleges are members of the scheme, have the opportunity to apply for a place on the scheme. Engineers from sponsoring enterprises set projects for a group of pupils from a specific school or college. The projects are important to the enterprises who are usually looking for some solutions to a specific development problem The engineer supports the group of pupils, who spend over 100 hours solving the problem. Problems are usually solved to the satisfaction of the company and often the companies develop products or systems from the ideas of the school project group. The pupils are required to produce a group report and make a group presentation. Universities support the scheme and some offer residential workshops to assist the pupil groups and engineers develop their project. Hertfordshire County Council developed the scheme between 1984 and 1990, supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and now covers all the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. Administration is separate to each country with overall management by The Royal Academy of Engineers. Each year around 500 pupils participate in the scheme. Further information is available from programme managers: In England, enquires@eeswgc.demon.co.uk In Northern Ireland b.campbell@ulst.ac.uk In Scotland davidwest@scottishengineering.org.uk In Wales eeswaustin@aol.com

      The Year in Industry: After gaining top grades at Advanced level GCSE and possibly already a place at University young people are invited to take a "gap year" and apply to join the Year in Industry programme. The programme provides a placement service in participating companies to enable the student to undertake "on the job" training and undertake real work for the company under the supervision of a company employee. The company issues a temporary contract of upwards of 9 months although this is flexible. The trainee student receives a salary and the company pays a fee of £1500 for membership of the scheme. The scheme has an industrial tutor network and the trainee student can access the network for career advice. The industrial tutor meets with the company supervisor twice during the contract period. The Year in Industry provides a management course for the trainees and keeps in touch with them during their time in University, which normally will follow their work placement. Further Information is available on the schemes comprehensive website www.yin.org.uk Smallpeice Engineering Skills and Careers. Provides a series of half day workshops for pulps aged 15 years, to enable them to experience engineering activities, both theoretical and practical during their Easter and summer vacations. Further details of this and other Smallpeice Trust Best programmes are available on their website www.smallpeicetrust.org.uk

      Headstart The scheme enables pupils in their penultimate year at school or college to spend one week in a university engineering department to experience something of the life of an engineering undergraduate and to be given information on careers and undergraduate courses in engineering Further information on www.hdstart.org.uk .
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Transformable results:.
Can the results be transformed into other countries?yes
If yes, Have they been transformed into other countries?no
If no, pleace write down your suggestions on how to transform the results into other countries
    The schemes have benefited from the charitable works of individuals. The schemes could however be implemented with pump priming from the European Union and national or regional governance. .
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Documentation of the project:
Which materials/documentations/publications/instruments/etc. of this project do exist?
      Information publicity, case studies and reports..
Where can these documentations be demanded (For example: Address/Telephone of the institution/contact-person/list of publications/link for downloads/ etc.)
      Further information is available from programme managers:
      In England: enquires@eeswgc.demon.co.uk
      In Northern Ireland: b.campbell@ulst.ac.uk
      In Scotland: davidwest@scottishengineering.org.uk
      In Wales: eeswaustin@aol.com .
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