So we've put together the most common myths about apprenticeship schemes, alongside the facts, so you can work out whether it's for you.
In these apprenticeships, they work alongside STEM professionals for 10 weeks, building new skills, gaining confidence and more importantly getting inspired and excited about school and their future.
It's $1,500 for a three-day class that comes with a Victorinox knife set, scabbard and plenty of pig and lamb deconstruction, or $15,000 for a 12-week apprenticeship that lets students work alongside the pros.
"Microsoft and Apple would not be the organisations they are today if it weren't for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs," they said – a sentiment that feeds into the coalition's drive to give apprenticeships equal standing when ranked alongside university degrees.
It also had the potential to be a useful training structure so that a new PSs could work alongside more experienced colleagues in an apprenticeship model.
Born into a Jewish family in Oxford, she never went to drama school, serving her apprenticeship in the BBC's radio rep company instead where she worked alongside, variously, John Osborne, Maggie Smith and Elaine Stritch.
The top retail and investment banks are turning to apprenticeships to train recruits in specialist and leadership roles, alongside their graduate programmes.
I think apprenticeships are the way forward – you get your experience alongside being able to work – uni just doesn't offer anything as good as that.
So it has been with the creation of university technical colleges – schools which offer vocational training in a range of professions such as engineering, healthcare, construction and business, alongside traditional GCSEs, and link their pupils to both apprenticeships and employment opportunities.
And alongside this, the government has a plan to create three million apprenticeships by 2020.
