Courses
Every apprenticeship standard at Level 6 and 7 currently approved for delivery in England — 172 courses across 13 routes, 89 of them integrated degrees. Sourced from the official Skills England dataset.
Agriculture, environmental and animal care 4
Ecologist (integrated degree)
Studying the relationships between living things and their environment to help to resolve potentially conflicting demands between economic development and the environment.
Environmental practitioner (Degree)
Providing employers with a high level of professional environmental expertise.
Professional arboriculturist
Managing peri-urban and urban trees.
Professional forester (integrated degree)
Provide expert advice on the woodlands and forests.
Business and administration 12
Career development professional
Assisting individuals or organisations before or during career transitions to develop long and short term career strategies.
Chartered manager (degree)
Taking responsibility for long-term organisational success, managing people, projects, operations or services.
Improvement leader
Developing improvement strategies and providing leadership in improvement for a business.
Operational research specialist
Help clients (either internally or externally) to make strategic, tactical and operational decisions.
Project manager (integrated degree)
Help organisations manage projects efficiently.
Senior leader
A leader who has senior management responsibility.
Senior people professional
Improve people practices in organisations in order to drive organisational performance and effectiveness.
Service designer
Improve or redesign services currently offered and develop or design new service propositions to meet the needs of the user as well as the business and other stakeholders.
Social researcher
Provide robust research and analysis that forms the foundation for social policy development, implementation, and evaluation, impacting important decisions that seek to ensure the best possible investment of public money and outcomes for members of society.
Sustainability business specialist (integrated degree)
Help organisations to manage the resources they use and the waste they generate according to environmentally friendly principles.
Systems thinking practitioner
Support decision-makers in strategic and leadership roles to understand and address complex and sometimes even ‘wicked’ problems through provision of expert systemic analysis, advice and facilitation.
Trading standards professional
Help ensure safe, fair, and legal marketplaces.
Care services 4
Church minister (integrated degree)
Offering leadership to local churches and supporting and supervising other practitioners in areas such as leading worship, preaching, pastoral care, facilitating faith development and community action.
Play therapist
Work to improve children’s mental health, emotional well-being, learning capabilities and social relationships.
Social worker (integrated degree)
Protecting vulnerable children and adults from harm or abuse, and supporting adults to live independently.
Youth worker
Enable young people to develop and working with young people to facilitate personal, social and educational development.
Construction and the built environment 15
Architect (integrated degree)
Working on the design of new buildings and the redesign of existing buildings.
Architectural assistant (integrated degree)
Working with Architects and other professionals such as Engineers, to design buildings and deliver architectural projects.
Building control surveyor (integrated degree)
Providing an impartial, independent and accountable third party service to confirm that building work achieves compliance with minimum standards.
Building services engineer
Chartered landscape professional
Lead the design, creation, maintenance or management of spaces in both natural and built environment.
Chartered surveyor (degree)
Providing professional advice and recommendations to clients on land, property or construction.
Chartered town planner (degree)
Shaping the places we live in by balancing the needs of people and business for homes, jobs, local facilities and open spaces with impacts on the wider environment.
Civil engineer
Designing, maintaining and decommissioning civil engineering infrastructure.
Construction quantity surveyor (degree)
Managing all costs relating to construction projects.
Construction site management (degree)
Ensuring that a construction project is completed safely, within an agreed timeframe and budget.
Design and construction management (degree)
Leading, managing and coordinating the design and/or construction process on building and infrastructure projects.
Fire safety engineer
Provide specialist, fire-related information across the built environment to protect people and property from the destructive effects of fire by applying science and engineering principles.
Geospatial mapping and science specialist (degree)
Analysing geographic data for things like maps, satellite navigation systems (satnav) and global positioning systems (GPS).
Senior and head of facilities management (integrated degree)
Delivering a variety of integrated facilities management operational services across multiple sites.
Transport planner (integrated degree)
Designing and developing transport and travel systems.
Creative and design 15
Advertising creative
Develop strategic campaigns, or one-off pieces of communication, that meet a client brief.
Archaeological specialist (degree)
Planning, undertaking and leading archaeological research and investigation.
Archivist and records manager
Using professional judgement and support of others to ensure the delivery, security and accessibility of records and other materials.
Broadcast and media systems engineer (integrated degree)
Working at the heart of the transmission process from the production studio through to the home screen/radio/streaming device.
Cultural heritage conservator (degree)
Preserving objects that could be housed in archives, art galleries, libraries, museums and private collections.
Curator
Research, understand, develop and interpret collections, themes or subjects.
Historic environment advisor
Responsible for providing specialist and authoritative advice, guidance and assessment to those working on heritage assets and the legal and policy frameworks for their protection.
Interior designer
Interior designers plan the internal layout of public, commercial and residential buildings to create functional and aesthetically pleasing spaces.
Journalist
To inform the public – either through news and current events, or through the creation of authoritative features, opinion or analysis.
Model maker
Design, fabricate and assemble models of all scales, styles and complexities – from prototypes to finished products, for use across a range of industries including architectural and building, product design, engineering, museums and exhibitions, film, TV, video games and digital media, props and costumes, advertising and sculpture
Production manager
Takes responsibility for the organisational aspects of production schedule and or budget.
Registrar (creative and cultural)
Enable access and enjoyment of cultural heritage by public and other audiences now and in the future.
Storyboard artist
To use storyboards to visualise the narrative, planning shots and drawing panels to demonstrate the staging/action, and maintain continuity between scenes of a production.
VFX artist or technical director
Create content, by producing objects, images or scenes that render together with live footage for the final image.
VFX supervisor
Liaise with the director and director of photography from the earliest stages of a production, working with clients and colleagues to create VFX/CG elements.
Digital 11
Advanced digital forensic professional
Undertake and innovate the capture, processing, and analysis of specialist digital forensic evidence.
Artificial intelligence (AI) data specialist
Discover new artificial intelligence solutions that use data to improve and automate business processes.
Creative digital design professional (integrated degree)
Providing digital design solutions to internal and external clients, across a range of sectors and contexts.
Cyber security technical professional (integrated degree)
Leading teams which manage cyber security risks.
Data scientist (integrated degree)
Working in a team to find ways to improve an organisation's processes.
Digital and technology solutions professional
Maintaining digital and technology strategies through technology leadership.
Digital and technology solutions specialist (integrated degree)
Investigating, identifying and implementing technological strategic solutions.
Digital user experience (UX) professional (integrated degree)
Investigate, analyse and design the experience that people have with digital products and services.
Game programmer
Program reliable and efficient software.
Machine learning engineer
The ML Engineer gathers data from different sources to design, build, deploy and validate machine learning and or artificial intelligence solutions.
Spatial data specialist
Initiate and lead programmes and projects which use location to link, analyse and gain insight from multiple datasets.
Education and early years 5
Academic professional
Working within the higher education (HE) sector delivering higher education teaching
Early years teacher (EYTS)
To be responsible for the learning, physical, emotional, social and intellectual development, and care of young children from birth to 5 years.
Teacher - Postgraduate
Educating young people to achieve the highest possible standards.
Teacher - Undergraduate
Educating young people to achieve the highest possible standards.
Teacher for the sensory impaired
Work with children and young people who have either deafness, vision impairment, or multi-sensory impairment, and their families, teaching staff and other professionals.
Engineering and manufacturing 34
Advanced robotics engineer
To invent, design and implement new robotic solutions for challenges that have not currently been solved using new scientific advanced engineering methods and techniques.
Aerospace engineer
Creating aircraft components and equipment, specialising in a specific engineering discipline (for example - airframe, design and stress, systems integration, support engineering or manufacturing engineering).
Control systems engineer (degree)
Assuring that manufacturing runs smoothly in areas such as site maintenance.
Electrical and electronic engineer (degree)
Supporting the manufacturing of new products by bringing the product to life and resolving manufacturing problems.
Electro-mechanical engineer
Solve real-world problems using a combination of mechanical and electrical engineering expertise.
Embedded electronic systems design and development engineer (degree)
Designing and developing electronic circuits, devices and systems for a range of industries.
Food and drink advanced engineer (integrated degree)
Deliver efficient, effective and high performance food and drink production processes and systems.
Geotechnical engineer (integrated degree)
Understand, model and analyse the ground.
High integrity software engineer
Developing software to support safety critical industries.
Human factors specialist
To make systems, products, tasks, jobs, organisations and work environments better for their intended users.
Infrastructure asset management professional
Lead the asset management function within an organisation.
Manufacturing engineer (degree)
Helping take products from design to manufacture, ensuring that they are launched on time, at cost and to the right quality.
Manufacturing manager (integrated degree)
Overseeing manufacturing processes to ensure that performance output meets customer expectations.
Materials process engineer (degree)
Controlling and managing the complex manufacturing processes for different materials
Materials science technologist (degree)
Ensuring materials are fit for purpose for a wide range of different industries.
Mine management
Lead and manage underground mining operations.
Non-destructive testing engineer (degree)
Testing materials used in machinery and structures to find faults like corrosion, cracks, flaws and other imperfections.
Nuclear reactor desk engineer
Operate, monitor and control the nuclear reactor and associated equipment in normal operational mode, as well as abnormal conditions.
Nuclear scientist and nuclear engineer (integrated degree)
Ensuring nuclear systems and equipment operate safely and efficiently and in an environmentally sustainable way.
Ordnance munitions and explosives (OME) professional (integrated degree)
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating technical information, concepts and ideas to propose solutions to problems
Ordnance munitions and explosives specialist (integrated degree)
Provide specialist expertise, advice and guidance and direction towards delivering complex scientific and technical OME solutions to directly evolve the UK OME defence and security capability in existing and emerging technologies.
Packaging professional (integrated degree)
Post graduate engineer
Developing innovative solutions to complex technical engineering problems
Product design and development engineer (degree)
Using engineering techniques to bring new products to life or redesign existing products.
Project controls professional
Ensure that projects deliver successfully and safely to time, cost and quality.
Rail and rail systems principal engineer (integrated degree)
Helping maintain railway tracks and equipment.
Rail and rail systems senior engineer (integrated degree)
Applying rail and rail systems technical engineering skills in a broad range of management and leadership activities.
Risk and safety management professional (degree)
Operating in highly regulated industries where the impact of loss is high.
Robotics engineer - degree
Specify, design, build, program and test robotic systems or solutions intended to do automated jobs.
Science industry process and plant engineer (degree)
Helping design the manufacturing process for science-based technology and products.
Space systems engineer
To take a leading role in the design, manufacturing and testing of complex, high value space hardware and ground support equipment.
Systems engineer (degree)
Solving some of the most complex engineering challenges by organising all the information needed to understand the whole problem, exploring it and finding the most appropriate solution.
Through life engineering services specialist (integrated degree)
Develop and deliver the support services that keep engineered assets working better and for longer.
Tool process design engineer
The design of a unique tooling process pathway that enables components to be mass produced in the most economically viable way.
Health and science 43
Advanced clinical practitioner (integrated degree)
Providing clinical care and treatment to patients.
Arts therapist
Using art, drama or music to carry to improve a person’s mental, physical health and wellbeing.
Bioinformatics scientist (degree)
Specialists who use computational, data analytical and data mining techniques which are applied to a range of problems in the life sciences.
Biomedical scientist
Carry out a range of laboratory and scientific tests to support the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Clinical associate in psychology (CAP) (integrated degree)
Provide high quality, evidence based psychological interventions to inform practice.
Clinical pharmacology scientist (integrated degree)
Design, analyse, interpret and report clinical research and clinical trials.
Clinical scientist
Collect, analyse and provide expert interpretation of clinical and specialist scientific data and make key judgements and decisions.
Clinical trials specialist (degree)
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team focusing on the delivery and execution of Phase I-IV clinical trials in humans.
Community nurse specialist practitioner (NMC 2022)
Caring for patients with a wide range of health conditions.
Dental hygienist
Dental hygienists are registered dental professionals who help patients maintain their oral and general health by preventing and treating periodontal (gum) disease and promoting good oral health practice.
Diagnostic radiographer
Obtaining images of a high diagnostic quality using a range of complex imaging equipment.
Dietitian
Using advanced communication and behaviour-change skills to enable people to make lifestyle and food choices to improve their health.
Dispensing optician
Give advice on vision care, and supply glasses and contact lenses to suit their customers needs.
Doctor (Degree)
Applying the principles and procedures of medicine to assess, prevent, diagnose, care for and treat patients with illness, disease and injury and to maintain physical and mental health.
Enhanced clinical practitioner
Provide a high standard of health care using judgment, skills, and knowledge.
Environmental health practitioner (integrated degree)
Promoting a safe and healthy environment for the public and businesses, through education and enforcement.
Family and systemic psychotherapist
Family and systemic psychotherapists help individuals, families, couples and wider networks to find ways to help each other when one or more members are struggling with mental health, relational and or behavioural difficulties. They may provide therapy for whole families, parts of families, individuals, couples, or other significant relationships.
Food industry technical professional (integrated degree)
Ensuring the safety and quality of food and drink products.
Geoscientist (integrated degree)
To guide sustainable development and stewardship of the natural and built environment.
Health and care intelligence specialist
Take data on individual or population health and use of services and other forms of evidence and turn it into health and care intelligence.
Healthcare science practitioner (integrated degree)
Supporting the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
Medical statistician
Provide statistical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team.
Midwife (2019 NMC standards) (Integrated degree)
An advocate for the woman, working in partnership with her and giving the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy.
Occupational therapist
Occupational therapists work with people of all ages and can look at all aspects of daily life in your home, school or workplace.
Operating department practitioner
Supporting operating theatre staff and providing care to patients at all stages of an operation.
Orthoptist
Orthoptists see patients of all ages with a wide range of conditions affecting their vision. They are specialists in assessing vision in children and those with communication difficulties.
Osteopath
Osteopaths are highly trained to practise autonomously from the point of registration.
Paramedic
Providing high quality and compassionate care, responding to the needs of service users and carers across the lifespan.
Physician associate - integrated degree
Working alongside registered doctors providing medical care as an integral part of a wider healthcare team.
Physiotherapist
Delivering programmes and interventions to help people affected by injury, ageing, illness or disability.
Podiatrist
Diagnose and treat foot, ankle and leg problems.
Prosthetist and orthotist
Caring for people who need an artificial limb or a device to support or control part of their body.
Psychological wellbeing practitioner
Helping people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression manage their conditions.
Public health practitioner - integrated degree
Assessing and managing risk of disease and ill-health, and the prevention of premature deaths.
Registered nurse degree (NMC 2018)
Giving care, advice and support to sick, injured or disabled people.
Regulatory affairs specialist
Ensuring healthcare products for human and animal use are licensed before being sold or supplied.
Research scientist
Planning, leading and conducting scientific experiments and analysing results.
Scientist
Carrying out technical and scientific activity in laboratories.
Soil scientist
To gather, interpret and evaluate information about the chemistry, biology and physics of soil.
Sonographer (integrated degree)
Conducting diagnostic and screening ultrasound examinations.
Specialist community public health nurse (NMC 2022)
Assessing the health needs of individuals, families, workplaces and the wider community.
Speech and language therapist
Speech and language therapy provides treatment, support and care for children and adults.
Therapeutic radiographer
Providing excellent care to patients diagnosed with cancer by delivering high quality and accurate radiotherapy.
Legal, finance and accounting 16
Accountancy or taxation professional
Providing financial information and advice to different organisations.
Accounting finance manager
Manage and implement accounting, finance systems and processes.
Actuary
Analysing data to predict the likelihood and potential financial risk of future events
Barrister
Applying principles and procedures of the law to advise or represent clients or employers in court
Chartered legal executive
Providing legal services to clients and colleagues.
Chartered legal executive litigator and advocate
Handle legal matters including giving legal advice.
Costs lawyer
qualified experts in legal costs. Advising clients and with a right to appear in court on behalf of their clients on matters relating to costs
Financial services professional
Working with companies or individuals to plan for their financial futures.
Internal audit professional
Providing independent, objective assurance and consulting activity to add value and improve an organisation's operations.
Licensed conveyancer or licensed probate practitioner
Deliver legal services within conveyancing or probate as an Authorised Person under the regulation of the Council for Licensed Conveyancers
Professional economist (integrated degree)
Producing rigorous, relevant and impactful economic analysis to drive decision-making at all levels.
Senior compliance and risk specialist
To ensure that organisations' operations comply with relevant legislation, regulation and policies through reviewing and implementing policies and procedures.
Senior insurance professional
Provide expert insurance guidance and management to support clients
Senior investment and commercial banking professional
Provide relationship management for clients to assess their financial performance and match banking products and services for their needs.
Senior professional economist (integrated degree)
Design, implement and lead programmes of economic analysis to support decision-making.
Solicitor
Progressing legal matters and transactions, applying legal knowledge and commercial judgement to produce solutions which meet clients' needs.
Protective services 3
Police constable (integrated degree)
Upholding law and order through the detection, prevention and investigation of crime.
Resilience and emergencies professional
Contribute to the local or national resilience and security agendas.
Serious and complex crime investigator (integrated degree)
Conduct serious and complex investigation.
Sales, marketing and procurement 6
Assistant buyer and merchandiser
Sourcing, selecting, maintaining and delivering the right products to meet demand and business objectives.
Business to business sales professional (integrated degree)
Selling products and services to other businesses.
Digital marketer (integrated degree)
Leading on the creation and execution of a digital marketing strategy.
Marketing manager
Responsible for the marketing activities and strategy of their organisation.
Retail leadership (integrated degree)
Acting as a brand ambassador who will lead, motivate and develop a team of retail-based employees, to deliver sales and profit targets.
Senior procurement and supply chain professional
Set the procurement and supply chain strategy.
Transport and logistics 4
Express delivery manager (degree)
Locating and delivering goods to precise and demanding delivery specifications.
First officer pilot
Support aircraft captains and commanders during flights.
Railway operations manager
Oversees the efficient and safe operation of rail services.
Supply chain leadership professional (integrated degree)
Procuring, producing, moving and delivering a product or service from a supplier to a customer or end-user.