Sentence examples for higher apprentice from inspiring English sources

The headgirl had a place at Sheffield Hallam and turned it down to become a higher apprentice at JCB.

We've had one UTC now going for two years, and last summer the headboy had a place at Loughborough University but turned it down to be a higher apprentice at Rolls-Royce.

The lifting of the cap on student numbers means universities will be offering more places this summer while the higher apprentice scheme has been adopted by many of the biggest recruiters as a different route to career success.

They find that firms with works councils have higher training investments during the training period of approximately €3,500 per year of training (which is to a large degree due to higher apprentice pay).

11 Kriechel et al. (2014) show that apprentice pay in Germany is strongly associated with worker representation at the firm level, as firms with a works council offer on average more than 10% higher apprentice pay than other firms.

"Our higher apprentices are among our highest performers," she says.

"We have been very pleased with the retention rate and the fierce loyalty that our higher apprentices show to the place where they started their careers," she says.

In 2014 the average hourly pay (pdf) received by apprentices in England was £6.31 an hour for level 2 and 3 apprentices, and £9.68 an hour for level 4 and 5 higher apprentices.

Winners were decided based on the results of anonymous satisfaction surveys filled in by trainees on the relevant programmes (higher apprenticeships are assessed by higher apprentices, school leaver programmes by school leaver trainees and so on).

Higher apprentices are employed and can expect to continue to progress with PwC after the initial two years of the scheme, but they are free to move around within the business or seek new opportunities elsewhere.

Although high apprentice pay makes an apprenticeship more attractive for youth than school-based education (because it lowers the opportunity costs of acquiring education), high apprentice pay lowers a firm's incentives to provide high quality training that goes beyond providing merely the firm-specific skills necessary to perform work within the firm.