Apprenticeships News Articles
From this week’s TES, One in eight young people with an advanced-level apprenticeship has progressed into higher education, research by GreenwichUniversity has revealed. This is more than double the number previously thought, and the number of people completing the apprenticeships - which combine college study with on-the-job training, and are equivalent to A-levels - has also increased by 36 per cent over the last four years. Professor David Maguire, Greenwich's vice-...
An article in this week's TES has highlighted that the government’s apprenticeships scheme is facing criticism amid actuations that the numbers involved in the scheme are being inflated by people already in work doing little more than on-the-job training, rather than helping those who 16-24 who it was intend for.
The latest Statistical First Release (SFR) was released yesterday which showed a consistent increase in Apprenticeships for the 16-18, 19-24 and 25+ age groups.
Provisional 2010/11 Apprenticeship starts have risen by 58 % compared to the full 2009/10 academic year. More than three-quarters of the growth came from over-25s, who now account for 40 per cent of the total number of starts.
Established sectors such as Construction, Manufacturing and Engineering are long-standing...