Whats the difference???

bcljnk

Right, my DD started a course today in nails, and she starts another course tomorrow in makeup and media makeup, we were under the inpression the nails course was NVQ, but she rang me saying its an apprentaship, and she cant get her EMA, i told her not to worry as i knew this and the EMA is for her other course which is classed as fulltime.
So whats the apprentaship, she garbled something about this other girl getting £80, my suspicions are this other girl may have some kind of job, but then again the other girl is doing hair as well.
My DD says out of all the girls doing makeup theres only her and the other girl doing apprentaships, and she has no idea what the other girls are doing!!!!
Confused mum

bestpud

An apprenticeship is usually work based with so much time in college. My son has just started one and he does a full year in college and then a mixture of work and college for the last two years. He gets £120 a week.

She will get paid if she is doing an apprenticeship (it is more that the EMA) and that is why she wouldn't be able to get the EMA on top.

I can't understand how she doesn't know what she has applied for and what course she is doing though. Has she been allocated a workplace, or does she have a job already?

I suggest you and/or her speak with her tutor and find out for sure - it all seems a bit vague to me!

student_advisor

There are two different types of apprenticeship - programme-led (taught wholly at college) and work-based (student has an employer & comes to college 1 day a week).

Students on programme-led would normally be entitled to EMA and students on work-based would normally get the £80/week training allowance.

Apprenticeships often lead to NVQ qualifications.

It is unusual (impossible at some places) for a student to do an apprenticeship and a full-time course.

You could ring the college or tutor to find out more information.

bestpud

That's interesting to know - I'd assumed all apprenticehips were work based (well, I thought that was the idea behind them).

Is the £80 the going rate for hair and beauty type apprenticeships?

My son gets £120 a week and the employer he is training with was one of the lower paid ones. He's doing fabrication but there shouldn't be that big a difference between industries should there?

affordmylife

My son is doing a catering apprenticeship one day at college the rest work based and will be getting £80 per week which I m glad about cos we dont qualify for EMA anyway. I thought that all trades would be the same although it has been suggested that if my son did hours outside of his arranged apprenticesip hours he would be paid the going rate for these so we shall see.

student_advisor

Some colleges will run programme-led pathways for students who struggle to find employment, that way they can still start some training.

£80 is the training wage, though as mentioned, students can earn more for more hours.

N.B. First year apprentices are not required to be paid national minimum wage...