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Apprenticeships

September 2026

  • An apprentice engineer works on an aircraft interior in an aerospace engineering factory.

    ‘A huge learning curve’: apprentices on the benefits and pitfalls of vocational training

    While many young people have found jobs and built careers, some have struggled to complete their courses

August 2026

  • Three trainee bookbinders stand in a workshop, one holding a leather-bound book

    AI-proof? Younger workers desert the digital world for traditional crafts

  • Richard Tice MP gestures while speaking, seated at a table with a microphone and glass

    Tice defends suspension of Reform UK activist over Farage criticism

  • Alan Milburn on a visit to the Irish Rail apprentice training centre in Inchicore, Dublin

    What can Dublin teach us? Milburn goes on a quest to solve youth jobs crisis

  • Prime Minister Andy Burnham visits Alstom Transport28/07/2026. Derby, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Andy Burnham meets with apprentices and graduates at Alstom Transport. Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

    Businesses in England: tell us about your experience of taking on apprentices

July 2026

  • Sixth form student in laboratory during science class.

    Will Andy Burnham’s plan to retool education work?

  • Prime Minister Andy Burnham visits Alstom Transport28/07/2026. Derby, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Andy Burnham meets with apprentices and graduates at Alstom Transport. Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

    Have you done an apprenticeship in recent years in England? We’d like to hear about your experience

  • Burnham and McFadden in orange high vis chatting to two people with backs to camera

    Young people ‘expected’ to engage with new work support, says McFadden

  • A technician explains a work tool to a young woman in a workshop

    The Guardian view on apprenticeships: young people need help getting started at work

June 2026

  • An apprentice bricklayer is shown how to build a wall.

    Reversing UK employment tax rises ‘would do little to help young people find jobs’

    Resolution Foundation calls for extra funding for apprenticeships and increase in number of youth support grants
  • Liz Kendall

    Labour will make AI ‘work for the workers’, says Liz Kendall

    Technology secretary promises to support people whose jobs are swept away by automation
  • A student wearing safety glasses checks a yellow spirit level over stacked bricks

    City & Guilds faces legal and industrial action over plans to cut hundreds of jobs

    New crisis at former vocational charity involves alleged withholding of data and breaching redundancy laws

May 2026

  • Woman exits Job Centre

    Former M&S chief appointed to tackle UK youth unemployment crisis

  • Composite image of Faye and Josh

    Rise in youth unemployment driving more to homelessness, UK charities say

  • A construction apprentice in hi-visibility clothing and a hard hat uses a circular saw

    Labour to expand youth work experience and training schemes

  • An apprentice using a wood saw on a construction site

    City & Guilds London Institute trustees accused of stalling inquiry into £166m sale

April 2026

  • Construction work on a big new rural housing estate overlaid with blue line graphs

    ‘Sludge in the system’: myriad problems stymie Labour’s 1.5m new homes pledge

  • STAGE: THE CULINARY INTERNSHIP, the student chefs doing their culinary internship ( stage in French) at Mugaritz in Errenteria, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. © Cargo Films / Courtesy Everett Collection2BWH0M5 STAGE: THE CULINARY INTERNSHIP, the student chefs doing their culinary internship ( stage in French) at Mugaritz in Errenteria, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. © Cargo Films / Courtesy Everett Collection

    Lure of being a social media chef means youngsters forgoing classic training, Michelin star cook warns

  • Construction carpentry apprentice using circular saw on building site

    ‘Apprenticeship penalty’ on benefits forces young people from poorer UK families to quit

  • A student works with a pipe during a plumbing class at City of Westminster College in London

    Fee hikes, big bonuses, then bosses exit: the curious case of City & Guilds privatisation

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