Apprenticeship figures are not what they seem – good news

Just weeks ago, aircraft manufacturer BAE Systems announced 3,000 job losses. A couple of months earlier, train manufacturer Bombardier admitted 1,400 of its jobs were to go.

So it was, to many, a surprise to read that the number of people starting apprenticeships in manufacturing and engineering had grown by almost a quarter in the academic year.

In all, some 422,700 people started apprenticeships of all kinds in the academic year just gone – a rise of more than half on the year before when the figure was 279,700.

Read full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/oct/28/apprenticeships-vince-cable-figures?newsfeed=true

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