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Very good to hear about upskilling taking place but also immensely sobering numbers (i.e. 1300 apprentices is seen a big uplift) for a country the size of the U
by dingdingdang 2y ago
Very good to hear about upskilling taking place but also immensely sobering numbers (i.e. 1300 apprentices is seen a big uplift) for a country the size of the UK.
- chickenbig 2y agohttps://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-sta... 118,770 apprenticeships achieved in the UK last year. We're not that big on practical education, with a preference for getting degrees so we can sit behind a desk moving (electronic) paper.
- defrost 2y agoWith 800,000 people (male and female) aged 20 (mid 2021) in a total population of 69 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:UK_Population_Pyramid.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Kin...
- exe34 2y agoI'm so never retiring.
- matt-p 2y agoI would also just say that a half of these 118,770 were over 25 Years old when they started, and only 44% of the total are for "advanced" level starts. They are often not very high quality, sometimes it will be things like the person who puts bread in the oven at a supermarket getting a level 2 in kitchen skills and so on. 1,300 high quality apprenticeships is noticeable (which is nuts).
- youngtaff 2y agoTragedy is that something like 50% of people don't complete their apprenticeships Provision seem to be very mixed - we know some teenagers who've had good ones and others who've had awful ones and these were in practical skills Best one I know of was a degree apprenticeship for one of the big accountancy firms. Person started work at 18, had a degree in their early twenties while being paid all the way through, and no student debt at the end