Shaking Up Apprenticeships

For almost a generation, apprenticeships have languished as an also-ran option for school leavers and other young people. The proud and sought after positions became a second class ride to the nationwide drive to attend the expanding universities.

Historically, apprenticeships were the domain of the upper classes, who would send their prodigy to a master who would contract for a period of seven years to teach the knowledge of the trade, feed and house, and also look to the Continue reading →