Extract from Education Committee: Oral evidence: Accountability hearings - May 15
Saturday, 18 May 2019 09:22
Chris Skidmore MP, (Minister of State for Universities, Department
for Education):...On the broader point you make around looking at
how we can establish and institutionalise degree
apprenticeships, I absolutely agree. We need to do
more. I think we started with about 100 degree apprentices in 2012.
The numbers have risen. It was 10,000 last year. I think
the starts between August and February, because they are
done in six-monthly cohorts and there is that...Request free trial
MP, (Minister of State for
Universities, Department for Education):...On the broader
point you make around looking at how we can establish and
institutionalise degree
apprenticeships, I absolutely agree. We need to do
more. I think we started with about 100 degree apprentices in 2012.
The numbers have risen. It was 10,000 last year. I think
the starts between August and February, because they are
done in six-monthly cohorts and there is that flexibility of when
you start, are now 14,000. They are rising and it is how you
continue that rise. Obviously over 60 out of the 86 degree
apprenticeship standards are being established and it is those
barriers that we have to look at, the SMEs, because those large
companies that are going to be able to offer degree
apprenticeships—I have them in my own local area, Rolls-Royce and Airbus—see the value in
them and they can create those career programmes, but how do
we ensure that the smaller SMEs can see the value in taking on
degree apprentices as well?
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