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What apprenticeship options are out there for school leavers.
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What apprenticeships are available?
That's what apprenticeships do.
There are already some superb examples of best practice that should be the template for what apprenticeships should look like – Rolls Royce has run a scheme for more than 100 years that opens the door to more advanced qualifications like a HNC, HND or foundation degrees.
Grammar schools were initially popular with parents who hoped an education would offer their postwar babies what apprenticeships offered an earlier generation: a set of skills that would prove an important bargaining tool, something they could use to negotiate with employers, or to set up on their own.
Through the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), the government outlined guidance on what an apprenticeship is and the requirements from the employer.
An interesting report from the Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards said that the Richard Review's focus on tightly defining what an apprenticeship is could potentially jeopardise what has been one of the distinctive features of the English system: its expansiveness.
There was a lack of clarity about what a successful apprenticeship looks like and 54,000 different qualifications underpin apprenticeships, which are of "various quality and length".
Government targets to increase the number of apprenticeships, combined with a lack of interest from many employers, have led to a watering down of what constitutes an apprenticeship.
In England, for instance, what are called apprenticeships are called 'modern apprenticeships' in Scotland, and that's the least of it.
Give us some insight into the application process for your apprenticeship; what did you have to do?
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