We know how to do apprenticeships well in the UK.
If those were betting odds, you'd still take them – with the obvious caveat that in some fast-moving industries, particularly science and technology, a good apprenticeship might well trump a lousy degree.
Manchester is widening access to apprenticeships with its "apprentice ambassadors", and a new Ucas-style clearing house to match students with apprenticeship offers well before they leave school, conditional on making the grades.
The establishment found that the apprenticeship was well suited to their needs.
Ucas should become a clearing house for apprenticeships, starting with higher level apprenticeships, as well as for higher education places.
And with higher education now out of reach for many because of rising fees, apprenticeships may well become the preserve of the middle classes.
We have brought in a small number of experienced people who are leading the teams, but our best success has probably been in national apprenticeships, as well as bringing in people with sales experience and training them to do recruitment.
QUAIL HILL FARM Deep Lane, Amagansett, N.Y.; (631) 283-3195, peconiclandtrust.org/quail_hill_farm. Quail Hill offers entry-level and advanced apprenticeships as well as information on exchanges with other farms and volunteer opportunities.
SS Live and work project, Sandwell and West Birmingham (SWBH) NHS trust SWBH is the only NHS employer in the country to offer homeless young people apprenticeships as well as accommodation in NHS housing.
In this case, Margaret, a lifelong dilettante, decides to write a novel because it seems a way to "achieve glittering success without the painful and humiliating apprenticeship other well-regarded careers required".
