British businesses back Brown’s call for more Apprenticeships
Updates | Tuesday February 26th, 2008Leading employers have today committed to adding over 4,000 apprenticeship places. The announcement came as a kick-start to Apprenticeships Week and was welcomed by Skills Secretary John Denham.
Vodafone have committed to 2000 apprenticeship starts in 2008-09, Superdrug to 1,000, Sainsbury’s to 400, Barchester Healthcare to 350 and Veolia to 250. These are all substantial increases on current numbers, while Phones4u have just set up their new programme for more than 200 by the end of this year.