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About Gateway About Gateway Gateway offers structured workplace learning opportunities to senior students. The Gateway programme is about students completing a work placement and having their learning in the workplace assessed against unit standards on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and integrated with their current programme of study. It is not a work experience programme or a programme for under-achievers. Gateway is an initiative designed to strengthen the pathway for students from school to workplace learning. Hon Steve Maharey, Minister of Tertiary Education has announced an expansion programme saying “Gateway offers students new learning choices and new opportunities to begin nationally recognised qualifications. For example students looking to “go into” the glass industry will be able to start a career pathway while they are still at school. Workplace learning is a formalized learning arrangement set in an actual workplace with clear understandings about the knowledge and skills to be attained and the assessment of unit standards. It differs from work experience which tends to be designed to give students a taste of different occupations, to help them in career planning. Gateway builds on existing partnerships to develop new relationships between schools and Industry Training Organisation
(ITO) and employers. This approach dovetails with the Governments developments of the Modern Apprenticeships initiative. Great Benefits to Companies Employers will benefit through improved public relations with their local school and will contribute to local needs. In the longer term, they will have the opportunity for more efficient and effective recruitment which will contribute to increased productivity and an enhanced company skill base. This programme has the potential to provide students with interesting and challenging opportunities leading to future employment or apprenticeships. For the company there is the opportunity to teach industry specific skills to the student. What a window of opportunity to gauge the attitude, potential and enhancements this young person could make to your company! Students will benefit by applying general skills in a workplace context, while gaining industry skills and in many cases,
getting a head start towards the glass qualification. Selecting Students for Gateway Gateway criteria for placement in a company
ACC and Company Responsibilities All students injured in the workplace are covered by ACC and should advise the Doctor that any injury sustained is NOT a work accident The implications are as follows:
What Skills Does the Company Need to Teach? Learning in the workplace will be with support and guidance from the workplace mentor. The student will work on unit standards which are a combination of practical and theoretical assignments and will be set a small practical project. The workplace mentor will verify the practical work of the unit standard. The unit standard will then be posted for assessment. The first unit standard that each student will complete is US497 Health and Safety in the Workplace. This Unit Standard relates to the individual workplace. It teaches Health and Safety knowledge that is applicable and unique to each company. Following this, Unit Standards:
Back to top How To Register as a Gateway Company You are able to register with JITO to be a Gateway supporting company. Once you have registered your company will be listed on the JITO website. Click here and complete the form. It will only take 2-3
minutes. You can either email, post or fax it to JITO. How do I find a Student? Once registered, your company will be listed on the JITO website. This is the reference for the school Gateway Coordinator to make contact with the company, when a student is interested in the glass industry. Alternatively you may wish to locate a Gateway school (also listed on the website) to contact the coordinator. |