Those Boeing figures don't take into account current airframe retirement either.
Just goes to show how clueless politicians can be that they believe this shortage rubbish.
Either way, what do they mean by apprenticeship? They surely don't mean that they are re-writing the rule book and coming up with a new way of training. In which case they must just be talking about sponsoring some individuals along the well-trodden path, probably at the usual FTOs. And once those individuals finish they would surely find themselves unemployed like most trainees at the moment.
BA have their FPP so the only reason I see them being interested (the article claims they are) is to either win some brownie points or to try and reduce their cost of gaining pilots - which is all but nothing at the moment anyway seeing as they don't do sponsorship.