Latest reflections on the situation in England The two main highlights on my radar this week were Morrisons and RSM launching their 2024 recruitment programmes already. The common element they both share is that their vacancies are widely dispersed around all parts of the country and not just in the big cities either. The Morrisons … Continue reading Week 193: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – more 2024 application windows open  

Latest reflections on the situation in England If anyone’s reading this for the first time since the end of the summer term and wondering how we’ve jumped so quickly from Week 174 to Week 192, it’s because at the end of July I backdated my data to 1st January 2020 along with a few other … Continue reading Week 192: Degree & Higher Apprenticeships overview – quiet but statistically interesting

Latest reflections This report gives a statistical summary of Level 10 or equivalent apprenticeship vacancies in Scotland posted during the 15-month period between 1st June 2022 (when I first started recording them) and 31st August 2023. With a total of 662 vacancies recorded, it offers an insight into the kinds of occupations that are available and how … Continue reading Analysis of Level 10 Graduate Apprenticeships in Scotland – September 2023 quarterly update

Latest reflections on the situation in England Week 191 was something of a curate’s egg. DAs were relatively scarce again and some of those I did include were targeted more at older applicants, but just about met my criteria of being relevant to recent school or college-leavers with up to a year’s temporary experience. Once … Continue reading Week 191: Degree & Higher Apprenticeship data 2020 to 2023 – the 2024 application cycle starts

Latest reflections on the situation in England August got even quieter this week. HAs were reasonably steady but DAs were sparse, as is often the case at this time of year. Any school or college leavers who switched their attention to degree apprenticeships after Results Day won't have had much to choose from and will … Continue reading Week 190: Degree & Higher Apprenticeship data 2020 to 2023 – a sparse week for DAs

Latest reflections on the situation in England As usual August is proving to be a quiet month and Week 189 was almost a mirror image of Week 188 in terms of volume, with 38 new DAs and 66 HAs compared with 32 and 74 the week before. In both cases this is more than 50% … Continue reading Week 189: Degree & Higher Apprenticeship data 2020 to 2023 – quiet but never dull!

Latest reflections on the situation in England Following last week’s revamp, when my cumulative data was extended by backdating it to the beginning of 2020, Week 188 was quiet but not without its highlights. August is always the slowest month of the year, but things were livened up this week by the posting of 18 … Continue reading Week 188: Degree & Higher Apprenticeship data 2020 to 2023 – Hospitality makes a comeback

Latest reflections on the situation in England This week I’ve enhanced my regular apprenticeships blog by backdating the cumulative data to 1st January 2020. Hence, from now on it starts at the beginning of the decade rather than at the time of the first COVID lockdown, which I think provides a more complete picture. It … Continue reading Week 187: Degree & Higher Apprenticeship data 2020 to 2023 – new improved revamp!

Latest reflections on the situation in England It was an abnormal week partly because the government Find an Apprenticeship website stopped functioning. Initially it showed some vacancies as ‘no longer available’ when you clicked on them, then from Wednesday onwards no new vacancies appeared at all and by Friday all vacancies in England had been … Continue reading Week 174: Higher & Degree Apprenticeships overview – an abnormal week

Latest reflections on the situation in England Just a quick update this week, as it always tends to be relatively quiet when we get into the summer vacation period. I recorded a modest 107 new vacancies and several of these were NHS apprenticeships that only barely met my criteria of being open to recent school/college-leavers … Continue reading Week 173: Higher & Degree Apprenticeships overview – latest data, including 99 digital specialisms