This month we will be celebrating our dads everywhere as part of Father’s Day on 16 June. Niall Geraghty is an Apprenticeship Operations Advisor for the Apprenticeship Service and tells us how his dad inspired him
Karen Garland an apprenticeship service content designer blogs about how she found her perfect job.
Building digital capability in the public sector is not that easy. Gary Tucker, Head of digital for the apprenticeship service, shares 5 strategies for meeting this challenge
In September 2015, I hired two software development apprentices. In this post I’ll talk about how we recruited them, what they’re working on, and how taking on apprentices is helping us plan for the future.
Joe completed his software development apprenticeship in 2015. In this blog he looks back at his decision to take choose an apprenticeship over university and updates us on his new role as a Junior Developer.
...most companies looked for when hiring a software developer, I realised that not many asked for a degree - they wanted people with experience in the workplace. I decided to...
...was the best route to establish my career. An apprenticeship would give me workplace experience alongside the training, whereas university is primarily lecturing with the hopes of a worthwhile industry...
...ASP.NET Web Forms, which neither of us were very familiar with. We used online resources to teach ourselves There’s always something new to learn Working in the SFA and on...
...website. The site provides users with information, advice and guidance to help them make decisions on learning, training and work opportunities. I look after the site both from a business-as-usual...
Two million UK apprenticeships were created in the last parliament. As one of those two million, I'd like to talk about my experience working in the Skills Funding Agency. I started here just over two years ago, a university drop-out stuck in a …