MCAST
Apprenticeships 2020/2021
Students following an apprenticeship
course must join the Apprenticeship Scheme and actively seek to find and retain
a sponsor as otherwise they may not be entitled to the Students’ Maintenance
Grants.
MCAST apprenticeships are divided in
two tiers:
a. lectures at MCAST, and
b. work experience (on apprenticeship
contract) with the sponsor
Students are duty bound to attend
both lectures at MCAST and also for their apprenticeship regularly. To ensure that Students' Maintenance Grants are credited to students on time,
students are to forward a hard copy of their apprenticeship attendance sheet to
the MCAST Apprenticeship Department every four weeks as directed by the
Apprenticeship department. All absences
due to illness are to be covered by a medical certificate.
The Students’ Maintenance Grants’
Board reserves the right to withhold students’ stipend rates, including Summer
Special Stipend rates and Top-up Stipend rates for students who do not submit
their attendance, and any medical certificates as may be the case, as
requested, within the stipulated time.
What is the Summer
Special Stipend?
Summer
Special Stipends are stipend rates credited to MCAST Apprentices in September,
October and November, which cover apprenticeship with a sponsor during the
months of July, August and September subject to eligibility.
No
payments of Summer Special Stipend will be made after end of November of the
respective academic year.
What is the Top-up
stipend?
MCAST
Apprentices may be eligible for a top-up stipend rate. This top-up stipend is
additionally credited to students working with a sponsor. Apprentices receive a pro rata amount of the National Minimum Wage Rate in addition to
other Students' Maintenance Grants credited to them.
Information
and Queries
All Students' Maintenance Grants
credited to MCAST apprentices are calculated on the basis of data passed on to
MCAST Stipends’ Office by the Apprenticeship Department at MCAST by the
stipulated period deadline. It is therefore imperative that original hard
copies of attendance logs are passed on to the Apprenticeship Department on
time. Neither the Students' Maintenance Grants’ Office
nor MCAST Stipends’ Office cannot accept liability if attendance logs do not reach
the Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning Department at MCAST within the stipulated deadlines. Backdated payments are only credited at specific
dates determined by the Students' Maintenance Grants' Board.
Apprentices
attending ERASMUS
Students who attend for an ERASMUS
project as part of their studies during July, August and September are to be
considered eligible for Summer Special and Top-up Stipend, since apprentices on
ERASMUS are excused by their local sponsor to be able to work abroad and gain
experience in a different working environment. The number of hours worked
on ERASMUS are to be included in the attendance returned to the Apprenticeship
Department.
Click
HERE for more detailed information about Summer Special Stipends and Topup
Stipend.