Apprenticeships are much more than completing a standard or achieving a qualification. They are an excellent way of gaining workplace experience, understanding how a business works, improving personal and social skills and starting or progressing in a career in a chosen field. 

 

Changes to the rules in recent years mean that apprenticeships are now open to anyone who is eligible to work in the UK and who has not already completed the training or qualifications they need to effectively carry out their role or a new role. An apprenticeship must contain significant new learning. 

 

Offering apprenticeships or hiring new apprentices is a productive and effective way for businesses to grow their own talent by developing a motivated, skilled and qualified workforce. Apprenticeships increase business productivity, which leads to increased profits, lower prices, achievement, improved confidence and new soft skills such as time management and self-awareness.