Resources by Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Technicians from Augusta Westland
Augusta Westland is a very large company in the aircraft industry employing people with a wide range of skills. In these videos, staff describe how vitally important technicans are to their business, why they employ apprentices and the appreciation of their work from all levels of staff. Training allows...
Technicians from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
These videos from the Gatsby Foundation describe the work of pharmacy technicans in a hospital trust. Staff describe the training and support that trainee technicans are given, leading to professional qualifications. This hands-on and practical route to qualifying shows that there is an alternative to going...
Technicians from the Science and Technology Facilities Council
In this video from the Gatsby Foundation, a variety of technicans working for branches of the Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC) describe how they came to be in their jobs, what they do and how much they enjoy their work.
Separate videos give an overview the specialised work that...
Technicians from URT Ltd
In these video resources from the Gatsby Foundation, staff at Universal Race Technology (URT Ltd) describe how important technicians are to the work that they do. The company trains their own technicians so that they can work with the specific cutting edge materials, technologies and processes that are used...
In this series of videos from the Gatsby Foundation, Companies that employ apprentice technicians talk about how vitally important they are to the running of their organisations and the opportunities and training that they offer. Apprentice technicians talk about their work and their ambitions and what has enthused...
Telecomms support - Leah
Leah studied AS maths and IT and A level psychology and computing. Despite starting a computing degree, she subsequently realised that the Telecoms Support Apprenticeship Pathway suited her learning style more appropriately. She is now working as an apprentice at Azzuri, working to support customers...
Telecoms engineer - Peter
Peter considered University after school but put his technical skills developed as a child building airfix model kits to good use within the telecoms sector. After completing a role in constructing bikes, his current role as telecoms engineer allows him to demonstrate his technical skills,...
This collection has been produced in celebration of ten years of continuing professional development run through the National Science Learning Centre. These practical experiments and demonstrations have been selected by the National Science Learning Centre, and their key partners, as the ten experiments that...
The shortage of physics teachers graphic
A statistical graphic from the Gatsby Foundation which demonstrates the chronic shortage of physics teachers across the UK and which looks at the various campaigns to address this shortfall over the past few years.