A Coventry University student is among a small group of apprentices who are the first in the UK to have completed their Civil Engineer degree apprenticeships.
Scott Griffiths, who works as a structural engineer at Waterman group in Birmingham, passed his Level 6 Civil Engineering degree apprenticeship end point assessment in June, achieving Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status with the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Scott began on a Level 3 apprenticeship at the age of 18 and progressed through a part-time Higher National Certificate (HNC) at CU Coventry, before starting on the Civil Engineer degree apprenticeship Scott learned to manage the challenge of balancing a full-time job and part-time study. The discipline he mustered from this experience has helped him to be better organised and goal-oriented, which has driven him to achieve more in his personal life, work and studies.
On the benefits of studying via the apprenticeship route, Scott said: "Working day-to-day in the industry that my studies applied to allowed me to see the value in every portion of the qualification. I could take more information in because I had somewhere to place it, and as a result, I was able to achieve much higher grades than I would have done in a full-time scenario."