Trade Secrets: How to reboot apprenticeships and kick-start the recovery

Summary:

Apprenticeships change lives. They combine a real job with training so that people can earn while they learn. They span a huge range of sectors – not just the important traditional heartlands of engineering and manufacturing, but finance, software design and the green economy, too. They have extraordinary returns for all involved: apprentices go on to have excellent employment prospects, businesses benefit from new expertise, and every £1 invested in level 3 apprenticeships brings a £28 return to the wider economy. They’re about as close to a win-win as it gets.