Program Overview

Mine Management Degree Apprenticeship

Overview

This course has been developed to help upskill those already holding roles within the mining industry, who want to develop their career. Apprentices will study a broad range of topics: the underlying maths, digital, geology and physics skills that inform engineering, then mine design, operations, processing, automation, risk, safety, economics, environment and social governance.

Duration and Entry Point

• Duration: 4 years
• Entry point: September

Application Deadline

See How to apply

Campus

• Penryn Campus, Cornwall

Contact

• Programme Director: Lewis Meyer

Final Award

• IfATE Level 6 Mine Management Degree Apprenticeship
• BEng (Hons) Mining Engineering
• Associateship of the Camborne School of Mines (ACSM)

Entry Requirements

• Qualification: A-Level, IB, BTEC Extended Diploma, T-Level
• Typical offer: ABB, 32/665, DDM, Distinction
• Required Subject: None
• Contextual offers: BBC
• Equivalences: View other grade equivalences
• General Studies is not included in any offer.

Additional Requirements

• Level 2 qualification in English and Mathematics
• Valid and eligible residency status

How to Apply

This programme does not follow the standard UCAS application process. Apprentices will need to already have a position or job offer from a mining company that is willing to support the application.

Funding

• Full programme cost: £24,000
• Employer fully covers the cost of this apprenticeship
• Apprenticeship Levy funding

Funding Eligibility Criteria

• Meet the criteria listed in the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) guidance
• Valid and eligible residency status

Course Content

• Year 1: Introduction to the business of mine, core engineering disciplines, and engineering thinking
• Year 2: Mining engineering skills, geology, rock mechanics, safety, ventilation, and allied skills
• Year 3: Digitisation and automation, material processing, excavation design and optimisation
• Final year: Strategy subjects, group project

Compulsory Modules

• Year 1:
  • CSM1288DA: Mining Life Cycle and Professional Practice
  • CSM1289DA: Engineering Fundamentals
  • CSM1290DA: Mine Challenge Project
• Year 2:
  • CSM1291DA: Resource Characterisation
  • CSM2322DA: Resource Development
  • CSM2323DA: Energy and Sustainability
• Year 3:
  • CSM2320DA: Digitisation and Automation
  • CSM2321DA: Material Processing
  • CSM3405DA: Excavation Design and Optimisation
• Final year:
  • CSM3406DA: Economics and Risk Management
  • CSM3408DA: Feasibility and Business Improvement Project (End Point Assessment)
  • CSM3404DA: Environmental and Social Governance

Learning

• Approximately six hours per week of remote learning
• Up to four weeks per year of site visits and residentials
• Implementation of knowledge via the practicing of skills and behaviours in the workplace

Careers

• Apprentices will be a full, salaried member of an organisation
• Solid industry experience is what employers look for when recruiting
• The structure of the apprenticeship standards means that apprentices will gain knowledge, skills and behaviours to be a fully-fledged mining engineer at the end of the programme.