Originally Posted by
pr00ne
Er, UK companies have some pretty large apprenticeship schemes in the technical field, and they are growing ever larger all the time. BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, MBDA, JCB, JLR, Bentley, Aston Martin, Mclaren, Babcock, Tata Steel, British Steel and Sheffield Forgemasters are just some of the companies who are trumpeting record apprenticeship intakes.
Yes indeed, but go back 25 or 30 years and a lot of those companies were cutting back on their training programs because they were overstaffed. There weren’t many training opportunities in the mid to late nineties, hence the huge demographic problem we are now experiencing.
FWIW, I started my technician apprenticeship in 1984 - there weren’t many opportunities in those days, either. It wasn’t a great time for engineering investment.