A Chorley-based engineering consultancy has launched its first Level 4 apprenticeship qualification in software testing as it looks to continue to provide high-quality technical solutions to some of the world’s largest organisations.

Source: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23269569.chorley-engineering-company-launches-software-testing-apprenticeship/?ref=rss

Additionally, 69% of employers have said that employing apprentices improves staff retention, so long as they are supported by an effective apprenticeship system.

Source: https://leftfootforward.org/2023/11/sarah-olney-mp-the-uk-apprenticeship-system-is-failing-our-young-people/

“A foundation apprenticeship was the best subject choice I made.”

Source: https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/23364760.greenock-student-secured-apprenticeship-award/?ref=rss

A friend recommended Southport College and Katie started her gas engineering apprenticeship in September 2021 – each week spending one day at college and four days working for Heating People in the North West.

Source: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/money/10992055/sun-on-sunday-guide-106-brilliant-apprentice-jobs-workers/

After the end of the apprenticeship, the freed Africans started buying plantations in each of the three counties of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo, and converted them into villages.

Source: https://guyanatimesgy.com/celebrating-guyanas-heritage/

A man who battled to complete his apprenticeship while suffering from cancer has had his resilience marked by winning an award at the 2023 Young Person in Construction Awards.

Source: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23560725.blackburn-man-wins-young-person-construction-awards/?ref=rss

An apprenticeship is a nationally recognised framework resulting in the apprentice achieving accredited qualifications.

Source: https://www.countytimes.co.uk/news/23277063.welsh-employers---quick-guide-award-winning-apprenticeships/?ref=rss

Another success story features Apex’s very first Apprentice Support Worker, who completed her year’s apprenticeship in Brookhill House in Coleraine, a ‘Housing with Care’ scheme for older people.

Source: https://www.northernirelandworld.com/education/new-career-pathways-in-northern-ireland-through-apprenticeships-at-apex-housing-association-4278843

Appropriately, for a story about apprenticeship, Kore-eda also used the project as an opportunity to mentor three young filmmakers.

Source: https://deadline.com/2023/01/hirokazu-kore-eda-netflix-the-makanai-cooking-for-the-maiko-house-1235217563/

Around 60% of parents feel that an apprenticeship is better than getting a degree in the current cost-of-living crisis.

Source: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/how-does-apprenticeship-uk-hospitality-industry-offer-way-out-cost-living-crisis-1718422

Azets said that its apprenticeship combines qualifications, skills, and behaviours training.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/23324996.accountancy-giant-azets-steps-recruitment-plans-scotland/?ref=rss

Basden said she has seen drawbacks to a traditional apprenticeship.

Source: https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2023/10/01/utah-studio-aims-get-more-women/

But, with neither formal training nor having participated in an apprenticeship, Gray emphasised how his skills simply manifested themselves.

Source: https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20230828/born-do-unusual-things

But with this inquiry we are hoping to find out what more needs to be done to ensure that more young people, including more 16-18 year olds, have access to, and want to take up, an apprenticeship in the engineering and technology sector.

Source: https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/work-help-unlock-potential-apprenticeships

By aligning apprenticeship programs with emerging skill requirements, fostering industry-academe collaboration, promoting inclusivity, and enhancing monitoring mechanisms, an updated law can empower the workforce of tomorrow.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/12/29/how-govt-can-empower-tomorrows-workforce/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-govt-can-empower-tomorrows-workforce

Earlier this year, spoke with Alex Richards, managing director of the Western Training Provider Network (WTPN), which manages the region’s ‘Share to Support’ apprenticeship levy share scheme on behalf of the West of England Combined Authority.

Source: https://www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/big-interview-bristols-western-training-27595063

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan added: “My apprenticeship was my golden ticket.

Source: https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/23312195.greg-smith-mp-appreciating-benefits-apprenticeships/?ref=rss

He became fluent in German and, after completing a required certificate course, landed a three-year multimedia apprenticeship at Axel Springer that started in early September at the company’s TV channel, Welt TV.

Source: https://theintercept.com/2023/10/26/axel-springer-fires-employee-israel/

He left school aged 15, in 1965 and took a five-year apprenticeship in a salon called Colkins in the city - just when long hair began to be trendy.

Source: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/perms-mullets-coventry-barber-reflects-26733398

"He was a passionate advocate for T-levels and helped make Cirencester the first college in the country to offer an apprenticeship in archaeology.

Source: https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/tributes-paid-cirencester-college-principal-8442447