Start the apprenticeship after graduation.
The government is also expected to issue a formal response to the Richard Review - which has looked at ways to improve the quality of apprenticeships - later this week.
At age 17 Niles, the son of Quakers, was apprenticed to a printer in Philadelphia, and, upon his release from his apprenticeship three years later, he went to Wilmington, Delaware, and embarked on various ventures, including the publication of a short-lived literary magazine called The Apollo.
He later served apprenticeships in stock companies.
David Pollard, chairman of the education, skills and business support policy group at the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "We have got to produce a route for people who are doing apprenticeships, so that in later life they can move into FE and then get a degree and master's and go forward, so that the apprenticeships become a new opportunity.
At the time I was also serving my apprenticeship in what would later become full scale heroin addiction.
While playing semi-professionally, Brodie took a part-time apprenticeship in joinery and later worked as a full-time joiner.
Some unions later adopted an apprenticeship program but never carried it out, the N.A.A.C.P. said.
"I was like a hawk preying in the night," he said later of his apprenticeship.
His was not a circuitous career path, and involved none of the head-scratching and setbacks of the young people we meet at that youth centre later, who are navigating apprenticeships, application forms, voluntary work and in one case, homelessness.
He left school at 14 and undertook a signwriting apprenticeship, which he abandoned three years later to start his own competitor signwriting business with his father.
