Latest reflections on the situation in England March always tends to be steady rather than spectacular, as most of the bigger providers’ annual recruitment processes are already in full swing. Nonetheless there’s always something of interest to report and the highlights of Week 218 included the following: 16 Biomedical Scientist DAs with Sonic Healthcare, a … Continue reading Week 218: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – steady but intriguing

Latest reflections on the situation in England After the annual mid-February peak that coincided with National Apprenticeship Week, things have now settled back into a steadier pattern as I expected. Hence, this week was characterised by regional and occupational breadth rather by anything speactacular. The highlights that did get picked up on my radar included … Continue reading Week 217: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – another steady week

Latest reflections This report gives a statistical summary of Level 10 apprenticeship vacancies posted in Scotland during a 21-month period between 1st June 2022 (when I first started recording them) and 1st March 2024, which was the start of Scottish Apprenticeship Week. The data has subsequently been further updated on 7th April 2024. The data tables below offer … Continue reading Analysis of 1,000+ Level 10 Graduate Apprenticeships in Scotland – updated after #ScotAppWeek24

Latest reflections on the situation in England After a highly eventful period during and either side of National Apprenticeship Week, including last week’s tour de force by the East Midlands, the pace unsurprisingly started to slacken a little in Week 216. It was still busy though, with another intriguing crop of new vacancies stretching from … Continue reading Week 216: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – over 1,800 new vacancies in February

Summary I published the first edition of this article for Green Careers Week in November 2023 and my analytics tell me it’s made the top 20 in my ‘most popular blogpost’ charts. With more water passing under the bridge since then, this has prompted to factor in the latest data and post a February 2024 … Continue reading Environmental Practitioner degree apprenticeships 2024 update: who, what and where?     

Latest reflections on the situation in England Once again there’s been an abundance of fascinating activity to report on. The biggest highlight, and there were many, was a surge of new vacancies in the East Midlands. This was very ironic because only a week ago I reported on the North East overtaking the East Midlands … Continue reading Week 215: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – the East Midlands strikes back!

Bringing academic experts to your learners! My West Wales correspondent has been in touch again and asked if I would help to spread the word about Aberystwyth University’s latest series of AberWorkshops, which are just starting up. The lists of sample workshops I’ve been sent look fascinating and offer enriching super-curricular insights for students, especially … Continue reading News from Wales – super-curricular AberWorkshops

Latest reflections on the situation in England National Apprenticeship Week certainly delivered the goods. In another fascinating and very eventful week I recorded 533 new vacancies and there were some intriguing occupational and regional developments too. The emphatic winner from an occupational perspective was Surveying, with 99 new vacancies accounting for almost 20% of this … Continue reading Week 214: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – 500+ new vacancies and a boom in Surveying

Latest reflections on the situation in England Unsurprisingly the week running up to #NAW2024 was very busy, with new vacancies posted across most of England from Northumberland to Cornwall. Even tiny Rutland got in on the act for the second successive week, thanks to another scattering of Mineral Products Technician HAs. I love recording Mineral … Continue reading Week 213: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – my latest data for National Apprenticeship Week

Latest reflections on the situation in England The first four weeks of 2024 have been highly productive as far as my data is concerned. Every week has thrown up surprises and I’ve added over 1,700 DA and HA vacancies this year already. Week 212 produced some more unexpected and significant developments across much of the … Continue reading Week 212: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – another exceptional week