ASPIRATIONS WORK EXPERIENCE DIPLOMA (AWED)

The AWED is a new course that opens up experiences of the workplace to any young person, improving social mobility, broadening and deepening learning around the employment and enterprise market.

The content is currently split across 21 different sectors with a variety of introductory experiences and longer, project-based challenges which incorporate teaching content from businesses and organisations, mentoring and feedback from their staff, visits and shadowing within the workplace and reflection from students about their personal knowledge, skills and behaviours development.

Sectors and industries that our students have been able to experience include:

  1. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL SECTOR

  2. TRADE AND MOTOR SECTOR

  3. HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE AND SOCIAL WORK SECTOR

  4. LEGAL SECTOR

  5. PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SECTOR

  6. ACCOMMODATION, HOSPITALITY AND CATERING SECTOR

  7. ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICE SECTOR

  8. EDUCATION SECTOR

  9. CONSTRUCTION AND ENGINEERING SECTOR

  10. PUBLISHING, BROADCASTING AND COMMUNICATION SECTOR

  11. COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL SECTOR

  12. PUBLIC SECTOR AND PUBLIC SERVICE SECTOR

  13. ART AND CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORT SECTOR

  14. MANUFACTURING SECTOR

  15. FINANCE, INSURANCE AND BANKING SECTOR

  16. HOUSING AND PROPERTY SECTOR

  17. AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECTOR

  18. MINING AND QUARRYING SECTOR

  19. ENERGY AND RENEWABLE SECTOR

  20. WATER SEWERAGE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT SECTOR

  21. TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS SECTOR

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