Latest reflections on the situation in England There were several significant new entries to my evolving 2025 employer list this week and things are hotting up. You’ll find the updated list in the next section and these are the latest additions to it: JP Morgan Chase with Digital and Financial Services DAs in Bournemouth (closing … Continue reading Week 248: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – with latest 2025 employer list  

Latest reflections on the situation in England Firstly there were eleven new entries this week to my evolving 2025 employer list, which features in the next section of this report. More of the big annual recruiters will join the fray in October, but the following are the latest additions to the list: Hazlewoods in Cheltenham … Continue reading Week 247: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – new developments plus latest 2025 list   

Latest reflections on the situation in England There are two themes this week. Firstly I’m keeping a focus on my latest venture, namely building up a list of employers who’ve opened their application windows for September 2025. The evolving list can be found in the next section, accompanied by a brief explanation.    The second … Continue reading Week 246: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – with updated 2025 list   

Latest reflections on the situation in England The main development this week was seeing a few more employers open their recruitment windows for September 2025 entry, and as such it has reinforced my perceptions about how the annual application cycle takes shape. Bearing in mind that some vacancies are ‘annual’ while others are ‘ad hoc’, … Continue reading Week 245: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – more 2025 windows opening  

Latest reflections on the situation in England The autumn term has barely started, but the 2025 application cycle is already gathering pace and the message this sends out to prospective applicants is to start actively looking from the first week in September if they want to get ahead of the game. In the weeks ahead … Continue reading Week 244: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – the new academic year gathers pace

Latest reflections on the situation in England For any readers who are picking up the threads again after the summer vacation period, here’s a brief summary of what you’ve missed. New vacancies generally came in nothing more than a steady trickle during late-July and August, but they were punctuated by some substantial highlights. If you … Continue reading Week 243: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – 2025 is up and running already

A free resource for applicants, parents and guardians, schools, colleges and advisers Since 2008 I've had more than fifty articles and two editions of a book published on the topic of UCAS personal statements. More recently I adapted three of the most popular articles and republished them on my blog as a free resource and … Continue reading My three UCAS Personal Statement articles – 2024/25 update

Background This report gives a statistical summary of Level 10 Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) vacancies posted in Scotland during the 27-month period between 1st June 2022 (when I first started recording them) and 31st August 2024. The data also includes degree and professional apprenticeship vacancies with UK-wide employers who have posted opportunities at locations in Scotland during the … Continue reading Analysis of Graduate Apprenticeships in Scotland – September 2024 update

Latest reflections on the situation in England “You never know what’s just around the corner” was a sentiment expressed in one of my recent headlines, and this was very much in evidence again in Week 242. It might have been a typically slow August week in terms of volume, but it certainly wasn’t without its … Continue reading Week 242: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – doctors, nurses, serious crime and explosives

Latest reflections on the situation in England Just 77 new DA and HA vacancies popped up on my radar this week, so it was very quiet but not without some noteworthy highlights and regional curiosities. These included: Four Design & Development Engineer DAs in the North East, three of them in Blyth (Northumberland) and one … Continue reading Week 241: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – quiet but never dull