A TRAINING charity is on course to out-perform national trends when it comes to the training of apprentices.

The Middlesbroughbased TTE Technical Training Group is the UK’s leading technical training provider to the oil and gas, process, manufacturing and engineering sectors.

The national and regional average for the number of individuals completing an advanced apprenticeship framework is 66 per cent for engineering, but TTE is on course to hit the 90 per cent mark this year.

In the past five years, more than 800 apprentices have completed TTE training programmes.

Managing director Keith Hunter said: “TTE prides itself on the quality of its industry standard training courses, which are combined with strong career support and pastoral care, all of which contribute to our outstanding success rate.

“Our apprenticeships produce a future workforce of highly-motivated individuals.

“Apprentices also ensure that a workforce grows and develops, which is good for a business’s bottom line.”

TTE’s learners do two years of “off the job”

training at its centre in South Bank, in a programme that blends academic study and technical vocational training. They can then progress to an industrysponsored advanced apprenticeship, where they gain practical experience at industrial sites across the Tees Valley.