Will apprenticeships ever be seen as equal to university degrees? | 09-Feb-21
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- čas přidán 8. 02. 2021
- Ian Collins asks if apprenticeships will ever be seen as equal to a university degree.
10:00 Euan Blair, head of a company offering young people alternatives to university, says "there's still not enough awareness among parents" about apprenticeships.
16:01 Labour shadow minister Toby Perkins says there needs to be more focus on the needs of small businesses when it comes to apprenticeships.
21:08 Former apprenticeship minister Anne Milton says children may end up getting better value for money by undertaking an apprenticeship rather than going to university.
32:46 Verity Marsterson, graduated with a French and Politics degree and has since gone on to do an apprenticeship at Sky as a software engineer.
I’m sick of this snobbery that “you won’t achieve anything if you don’t go to uni”. This is pretty much what was forced down our throats at school.
Too many people got to university studying useless degrees, apprenticeships is the way forward for this country to plug the skills gaps we have.
I wont employ anyone with a degree, I value apprentices and wont even let degree savings entitled students in for interview. Those with real world experience are far more productive and commercially aware. Universities educate common sense and decency out of people with out of date rubbish courses
Ask the "Gender Study" uni grads if their degree is worth the paper it is printed on....
No, as a Joiner with 35 year under my belt , I still get Yuppie types that think they know better than me on how to fit a kitchen and that we are all dummies.
Apprenticeships have always been better
They should be seen as better.
A reason why there are so few women in programming may be the same as why there are so few men in veterinary nursing, or hairdressing, or beauty and makeup, is that most of them do not want to do it.
A scheme by Labour to get the youth unemployment figures down.
They could be if the meaning of an apprenticeship hadn't been watered down by ridiculous government plans. For example "apprenticeships" in McDonalds, retail, security guarding. These were introduced because lobbying industries can get away with paying someone an apprentice wage to someone who is essentially a trainee and can be trained within weeks.
A lot of companies would prefer to employ young people with apprenticeship. They often have a different attitude not pretending to know it all
I've been told by literally every careers advisor I ever met that most employers nowadays, value people with experience of working in a similar field such as having an apprenticeship over those having a degree.
I'm an employer and I take the apprenticeship kids over the university ones any and every day of the week.
In many cases an apprenticeships is not what it was you can get an apprenticeship for Mc Donald's
as soon as the people currently in university become employers.
A University degree in 2021 is, in most cases, utterly meaningless. First of all education has been so dumbed down that the graduates are considerably less educated than an A level student in the 1970s, and secondly what does a degree in media studies really offer someone? (There are many examples of useless degrees).
Who needs apprenticeships or university degrees, when there isn’t any jobs and if there is there is 100s of people applying for them. The job centre will be the biggest employer for sure
They should. Infact they are more knowledge and skill capable
We count the income of the people with degrees and weigh them with the incomes of people who started with apprenticeships and then you have your answer.
Will we ever go back to work after Convid is the question?