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Articles tagged with: apprenticeships
Hundreds of young people start their career at Sellafield Partner content
Environment
By Sellafield Ltd
Hundreds of young people start their career at Sellafield
Sellafield Ltd's continued investment in apprenticeship and graduates leads to record breaking intakes.
National recognition for Sellafield's apprentice scheme Partner content
Economy
By Sellafield Ltd
National recognition for Sellafield's apprentice scheme
Sellafield Ltd has been listed in the top 100 apprentice employers in England for 2022.
Go-Ahead named top apprenticeship employer in the UK transport industry Partner content
Education
By Go-Ahead
Go-Ahead named top apprenticeship employer in the UK transport industry
Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
CIOB and UCEM team up to deliver an apprenticeship with a route to chartered status
The CIOB (Chartered Institute of Building) and University College of Estate Management (UCEM) have teamed up to offer a degree apprenticeship programme which is also a route to chartered status as a construction professional.
Apprenticeships are failing working class school leavers
Education
By Will Tanner
Apprenticeships are failing working class school leavers
A record number of 18-year-olds - almost four in 10 - accepted a place at university last year. Unfortunately, too many of them - around one in five - will graduate encumbered with a lot of debt but no greater chance of higher earnings for their troubles.
The transformative power of apprenticeships Partner content
Education
By Openreach
The transformative power of apprenticeships
For Openreach, apprentices aren’t just the extra pairs of hands needed to build the UK’s fibre network; they’re the beating heart of a strong, skilled and diverse workforce.
We must celebrate the apprentices who are helping build our future
Education
By Jack Lopresti MP
We must celebrate the apprentices who are helping build our future
National Apprenticeships Week enables us to spotlight some of the remarkable work being done up and down the country, by apprentices, employers and educators, to equip people of all ages for the workplace of tomorrow.
LISTEN: Delivering the skills required to make net zero happen Partner content
Environment
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
LISTEN: Delivering the skills required to make net zero happen

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, this episode of Engineering a Better World explores how we can lead the way in delivering the skills required to make net zero happen. 


Host Jonn Elledge talks to Siobhan Baillie MP, and Yvonne Baker and Dr Graham Herries, Co-Chairs of the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Education and Skills Policy Panel, and interviews Dr Alex Burghart MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Skills.
National Apprenticeship Week: How we can build skills for the future Partner content
Education
By Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
National Apprenticeship Week: How we can build skills for the future
It’s that time of year again - National Apprenticeship Week is upon us, meaning it’s time to sit up and take stock.
How the apprenticeships levy has helped deliver new drivers for London’s buses Partner content
Education
By Go-Ahead
How the apprenticeships levy has helped deliver new drivers for London’s buses
A lot of people assume driving a bus is straightforward. But in London, one of the world’s busiest and most crowded cities, it takes skill, determination, patience and concentration to keep a double-decker bus on the move.
The NDA group apprentices helping to ‘Build the Future’ Partner content
Economy
By Sellafield Ltd
The NDA group apprentices helping to ‘Build the Future’
It’s National Apprenticeship Week - and we’re celebrating over 700 apprentices who are currently training within NDA group businesses across the UK.
Prisoners should be offered apprenticeships while incarcerated to help them gain skills for jobs upon release
Education
By Rob Halfon MP
Prisoners should be offered apprenticeships while incarcerated to help them gain skills for jobs upon release
It is little wonder that reoffending rates are so high in this country – at around 42 per cent – when the odds of finding a job are stacked against prison leavers.
Partner content
Economy
By Glass and Glazing Federation
GGF Apprenticeship Scheme Announced
The Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF) is pleased to announce that it will be launching a GGF Apprenticeship Scheme from January 2022, to help Member companies recruit, train and qualify apprentices.
The nuclear industry is harnessing the Best of British to create a new generation of skilled professionals Partner content
Environment
By Sellafield Ltd
The nuclear industry is harnessing the Best of British to create a new generation of skilled professionals
The future of the nuclear industry is in good hands and well placed to help Britain face some of its biggest challenges.
Betting Industry Backs ‘Plan For Jobs’ With Pledge To Create 5,000 Apprenticeships Partner content
Education
By Betting And Gaming Council
Betting Industry Backs ‘Plan For Jobs’ With Pledge To Create 5,000 Apprenticeships
Betting and gaming firms have pledged to create 5,000 apprenticeships over the next five years.
Partner content
Education
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
A-level Results: employers and academia must look beyond grades
As students across England and Scotland receive their A level, BTEC and Highers results, a leading engineers’ body is calling for employers and academia to be flexible in how they support students on the next stage of their learning.
This World Youth Skills Day, we must reaffirm our commitment to deliver the skills young people need for employment
Coronavirus
By Gillian Keegan MP
This World Youth Skills Day, we must reaffirm our commitment to deliver the skills young people need for employment
Earlier this summer at a Sotheby’s auction, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, sold its original source code for $5.4 million.
The insurance and personal finance professions welcome the Chancellor’s plan for jobs Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Insurance Institute
The insurance and personal finance professions welcome the Chancellor’s plan for jobs
Greater incentives for apprentices and employers will result in more individuals being able to access the insurance and personal finance professions, which are keen to attract fresh and diverse talent.
Partner content
Economy
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
IET react to Budget 2021
Investment in skills, energy, transport and innovation is vital as we move out of the pandemic towards a more sustainable, healthy economy.
How are Cadent delivering the skills for the future? Partner content
Coronavirus
By Cadent
How are Cadent delivering the skills for the future?
Martin Rimmer, Chief People Officer at Cadent, explains how the organisation is putting its people at the heart of the green recovery.
The ‘Lifetime Skills Guarantee’ is not new, we have long called for funding for adult education and retraining
Education
By Daisy Cooper MP
The ‘Lifetime Skills Guarantee’ is not new, we have long called for funding for adult education and retraining
Our proposals for ‘Skills Wallets’, to give everyone £10,000 to spend on education and training throughout their lives, was a cornerstone of the Liberal Democrat election manifesto in 2019.
Defining the future of training Partner content
Defence
By Raytheon UK
Defining the future of training
The pandemic has resulted in a paradigm shift that we need to take on board in terms of the way we spend, the way we design and the way we conduct our training.
Matt Hancock unveils £172m plan to double nursing apprentices in wake of Covid-19
Health
Matt Hancock unveils £172m plan to double nursing apprentices in wake of Covid-19
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced a new £172m fund to boost the number of nursing apprentices in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Disadvantaged workers being ‘failed’ by apprenticeships system, government advisers warn
Coronavirus
Disadvantaged workers being ‘failed’ by apprenticeships system, government advisers warn
Workers from disadvantaged backgrounds are being “left behind” by the UK’s apprenticeships system, the Government’s own social mobility advisers have warned.