BPIF celebrates National Apprenticeship Week

Print Solutions

The BPIF celebrated National Apprenticeship Week with a visit to Jaguar Land Rover, a Letterpress workshop.

The organisation took a number of its apprentices to Jaguar Land Rover and they were hosted in the company’s Education Business Partnership Centre, a purpose built facility for education in the middle of an industrial environment.

The day consisted of a behind the scenes guided tour of the facility and they also took part in a variety of learning activities focused around the lean manufacturing processes.

The day was enjoyed by all and was a great opportunity for the apprentices to see how another manufacturing industry operates and take away what they had learnt back to their own companies.

Alice Murray of Hunts and a BPIF Apprentice Council member, commented: ‘This was a great opportunity to see how the UK’s largest car manufacturer operates. I really enjoyed learning and seeing how a different type of business from the one I work in operates and how the processes involved in car manufacturing can relate similarly to the way the printing industry operates. The tour around the factory was a brilliant experience and the team building exercises were great fun!’

Another apprentice who took part in the day, Matthew Edgerton of Precision Colour Printing said, ‘I think the experience at Jaguar Land Rover has opened my eyes to other areas of manufacturing and lean processes, I hope some of the ideas I gathered from Jaguar Land Rover can be used at PCP’.

In addition, a group of BPIF Apprentices partook in a letterpress workshop at St Brides.

The BPIF offers a wide variety of apprenticeship courses.