The Quantity Surveying Degree Apprenticeship equips apprentices with the technical, financial, and managerial skills needed to succeed in cost and contract management across the construction and civil engineering industries. Apprentices combine paid employment with university study, gaining practical experience while working toward a professionally recognised qualification.

The degree apprenticeship integrates 80% workplace learning and 20% off-the-job study through lectures, seminars, site visits, and online learning so that you can relate and apply your learning into practice with the workplace.

The 20% off-the-job learning includes:

• The teaching of theory, e.g. lectures, seminars, tutorial, on-campus learning, on-line learning
• Practical training, shadowing, mentoring, industry visits, lab experiments,
• Learning support and time spent writing assessments/assignments.

The degree apprenticeship forms part of the 20% “off the job” learning. You may also have in-house training courses and preparation for assessments and examinations that will also contribute towards the 20%.

The 80% ‘on-the-job’ learning activities would be designed with The University of Derby and your designated workplace mentor and will depend on your specific job role with your employer.

To facilitate designing of such activities, each module specification has a list of ‘indicative work-related tasks’ for your degree apprenticeship. These learning activities would be undertaken in your workplace to complement and inform the 20% off-the-job learning. Your workplace mentor will support and monitor these activities. These will also be reviewed at meetings between yourself, and your workplace mentor.