Uptake of science apprenticeships grows

By 2018-11-01T10:45:00

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Getting started wih lab tech and lab scientist apprenticeships

The government’s ambition to create three million apprenticeships could be revised, possibly because this target looks harder to achieve with apprenticeship numbers significantly down since the introduction of the apprenticeship levy. However takeup of in the reformed lab tech and lab scientist apprenticeships is rising. 

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