Many employers believe that apprenticeships
can be more useful than hiring
graduates
According to City and Guilds, which awards
apprentices, surveyed 500 employers and found that employers value
apprenticeships more than university graduates. This poll took into
account 500 employers and found that half had hired apprentices,
and 52% found them to be more productive than graduates, and can be
more affective when filling that ‘graduate job’.
Apprenticeships allow students to gain
experience and start earning earlier meaning they have no graduate
debt. However if you put a graduate and an apprentice in the same
role, 9 times out of 10 the graduate will out perform the
apprentice. This is because the graduate has been trained in project work,
theory, working to deadlines. The benefit of an apprentice is that
they come a lot cheaper at the start.
Usually people who perform apprenticeships do
so because they haven’t achieved the required grades to attend
university, or they don’t have enough money to fund themselves on a
degree course. More likely now tuition fees have been increased,
which has meant that there is an increase in apprenticeship
applications.
Does this mean that university is going to
become a less likely choice, with so many graduates unemployed and
rising tuition fees, the benefits of an apprenticeship far outweigh
taking a degree. Yet apprenticeships are often just a way of
training someone in a single role, whereas university can bring out
the talent and potential in peoples ability.
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