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Posts Tagged ‘apprenticeships’

So, What’s Your Experience with Apprentices?

I’m sure you were all grateful that I resisted talking about our employment trials and tribulations here at LCM Systems in my last post. Well, sorry, just one last post.

Apprenticeships. Good or bad idea?

Well, on paper, of course they seem like a great idea. Introducing a motivated, dynamic youngster to the world of work, where they will be paid, trained and you will end up having a employee with all the right skills – well, you trained them, right? And with the difficulty I have had trying to fill our engineering places, I think I might give it a try.

I would love to know if any companies out there who are reading this have had an apprentice and how it worked out. Let me know, please.

So Where is Engineering’s Future

Following my last blog entry on women in engineering and listening to university after university announcing the maximum £9000 tuition fees, I wonder where the future of engineering lies.

The industry really needs to start encouraging more young people into this diverse and interesting profession. I was delighted to see that on the Isle of Wight GKN Aerospace has pledged that they would take on 11 new apprentices to add to the 27 already employed at its East Cowes site. i think that engineering really is a ‘hands-on’ profession and the idea that the young and talented will learn their skills in real-life situations contributing to the manufacturing output of the UK fills me with joy.

SO, do you think that the future of engineering is in more practical training rather than 3 years at University and massive debt?

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