UKFast Blog: apprenticeships

We are very, very excited to announce that the UKFast Apprenticeship scheme has returned! UKFast is opening its gates to apprenticeships once again, and over the next six weeks we will be accepting applications for our award-winning apprenticeship scheme. Apprenticeships are…

Many of us will remember the pain of GCSEs (O-levels back in the day) – or will have children who are actively, and vocally, reminding them of it now. Many 16-year-olds getting their GCSE results today will feel like college…

For many of us today is just another Thursday – we might be wondering what’s for lunch, or if it’s socially acceptable to spend the entire weekend hiding in a sofa fort (answer: it is). For thousands of 18-year-olds across…

As National Apprenticeship Week draws to a close, Bryn takes a look at what the events of the last five days meant for skills, schools and businesses. For anyone out there who lives in a Wi-Fi-less cave, this week is/was…

Apprenticeships are soaring but there still seems to be a shortage of girls applying. Leanne of Crane Payment Innovations (CPI) shares her thoughts. There were 492,700 apprenticeship starts in England in 2014/2015, a 12 per cent increase on the previous year,…