Latest reflections on the situation in England My last update was posted four weeks ago as the 2023/4 academic year drew to a close. However, I’ve still been keeping tabs on new vacancies since then, as well as upwardly adjusting my data with some vacancies that I’d missed earlier in the year. It hasn’t been … Continue reading Week 240: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – Results Week update

Latest reflections on the situation in England In terms of volume, Week 236 was very similar to Week 235. There were 103 new vacancies compared with 101 the week before, along with a similar DA/HA breakdown of 33 DAs (29 last week) and 70 HAs (72 last week). In fact, the somewhat modest weekly figures … Continue reading Week 236: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – there’s more to jobs than meets the eye

Latest reflections on the situation in England This week’s new vacancies, while modest in number, were distributed quite widely around the country. The total only scraped into three figures by the skin of its teeth, but I did have to overlook a big crop of social care vacancies in the West Midlands that I think … Continue reading Week 235: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – you never know what’s just around the corner  

Latest reflections on the situation in England It was another typically-June kind of week. Most of the time things were relatively quiet, but every so often my radar would detect a small burst of intriguing activity that was more than worthy of a special mention in dispatches. The first of these was a crop of … Continue reading Week 234: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – more fascinating highlights

Latest reflections on the situation in England In the end Week 233 turned out to be something of a paradox. Reaching 60,000 vacancies in England is a milestone worthy of some mild celebration and I’ll be cracking open a bottle of 0% Shiraz tonight. But otherwise it was a rather damp squib of a week … Continue reading Week 233: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – 60,000 vacancies analysed

Latest reflections on the situation in England I’ve been publishing these reports on a mostly weekly basis for more than four years now and next week will see the cumulative number of vacancies reach a massive total of 60,000. This may prove to be a good time to start scaling the project down, as I … Continue reading Week 232: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – 60,000 vacancies almost reached

A free resource for applicants, parents and guardians, schools, colleges and advisers Since 2008 I've written two books and more than fifty articles on the topic of UCAS personal statements. More recently I adapted three of my most popular articles and republished them on my blog as a free resource. I'm pleased to say that … Continue reading My three UCAS Personal Statement articles re-published for 2024/25

Latest reflections on the situation in England The usual pattern during the spring and summer periods is that higher apprenticeships remain fairly steady but degree apprenticeships slow down. This was very much the case again in Week 231, with total numbers quite similar to the previous week. The main highlights were an annual posting of … Continue reading Week 231: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – a good week for sport and intelligence

image by Stephen O'Donnell on Unsplash   Purpose This report gives a statistical summary of Level 10 apprenticeship vacancies posted in Scotland during the two-year period between 1st June 2022 (when I first started recording them) and 31st May 2024. The data tables below offer an insight into the kinds of occupations that have been available and … Continue reading Analysis of 1,100 Level 10 Graduate Apprenticeships in Scotland

Latest reflections on the situation in England Sales Executives, Marketing Executives and Software Developers were the most prominent occupations this week, while regionally Staffordshire and Berkshire were the busiest counties outside London. During the past fortnight Stockton-on-Tees has also popped up several times with a selection of vacancies posted by the local borough council.     … Continue reading Week 230: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – healthcare sciences continue to evolve