MENTORTRAIN

Apprenticeships assure quality learning, decrease skills mismatch and increase employment. However, quality apprenticeships depend on mentorship competence and, although most mentors at SMEs are highly skilled on their technical area, they lack the necessary pedagogy to be able to transfer these skills to apprentices. The MentorTrain project, therefore, aims to create a platform for imparting skills to mentors, particularly experienced workers from SMEs who may not necessarily have relevant mentoring experience but are working with students/apprentices from professional higher educational institutions at EQF levels 5-7.
Mission:
To train and equip mentors in small organizations to provide quality apprenticeships.
Vision:
Improving the competence of mentors will translate into higher apprenticeships’ quality, better learning outcomes of apprentices and increased apprenticeship placement offers by SMEs.