Sentence examples for trained apprentices from inspiring English sources

In 2009 only about 8% of English employers trained apprentices compared with up to four times that number in the best continental European countries.

In classical Greece, for instance, "corporations" of metalworkers, potters, masons, and other craftsmen had both a social purpose (members worshiped the same deities and celebrated holidays together) and a business function (members trained apprentices and spread innovations).

All sources provided a sample of employers that currently or recently had employed and trained apprentices.

They may also worry that their investment in training could be lost if trained apprentices were recruited by competing firms.

The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians, blames the shortage on "a 30-year failure to train apprentices".

"In the past, there has been evidence to suggest that pledges by firms to train apprentices have not transpired.

His company was looking for graduates, he said, but was also setting up an academy to train apprentices.

The association, founded in 1815 to train apprentices, is selling its 17 workers' banners from the 1830s to finance educational programs and repairs to its 1850s stone building.

By day, in the Renaissance tradition of training apprentices, the space comes alive, as assistants and students help with his sculpture projects.

What might work though is using government procurement, along with different tax and regulation deals to encourage businesses to train apprentices.

A journeyman who could provide proof of his technical competence (the "masterpiece") might rise in the guild to the status of a master, whereupon he could set up his own workshop and hire and train apprentices.