Visit the Apprenticeships website for more information.
Universities are centres of research excellence one minute, world-class institutions the next, places for teaching only, vocational utilitarian havens that offer grandiose apprenticeship schemes or sites of lifelong learning and everlasting something or other.
Efforts were made to invest in individuals, with 3,500 training opportunities offered on site, 457 apprenticeships on offer and 11% of the jobs going to the formerly unemployed".
It does push you into looking for work, but what about people with no qualifications?" Michael is qualified – to work on a building site – but his apprenticeship ended when his employer could no longer afford to keep him on.
A 10-week "green apprenticeship," according to its Web site, "offers a highly practically-based immersion into the processes and challenges involved with the design, building and running of sustainable communities, linking together ecological, social, economical and spiritual aspects into a unified whole".
Hazel's role includes managing the manufacturing apprenticeship across Unilever's UK factory sites.
The apprenticeship centres, operating from about 300 sites, were described as government-contracted "one-stop shops" for businesses seeking to hire apprentices or people wishing to take up an apprenticeships.
Ashley Liversidge, Gardener Ashley, 20, finished school in 2007 and did an apprenticeship before finding work on a building site.
You can apply for an apprenticeship at an architectural firm or construction site during the last year of school.
To keep building sites fully staffed, unions are strengthening their apprenticeship programmes, with some success: programmes for cement masons, pipefitters and the like are said to be bursting.
