Which sort of "Apprenticeship" do you mean a Trade Apprenticeship doesn't let you move that far up the ladder you would still have to get a degree level quali

Which sort of "Apprenticeship" do you mean a Trade Apprenticeship doesn't let you move that far up the ladder you would still have to get a degree level qualification if you want to progress assuming you have a permissive system that allows it until recently it was almost impossible to do this in Germany - the EU made them change this.