Unpaid summer internships have long been a first step on the employment ladder, a sort of apprenticeship programme unencumbered by government red tape.

He adds that the well-established apprenticeship programme includes a range of 'expansive' personal development opportunities, including team building and leadership skills.

Then join the world's first apprenticeship programme for tandem skydive instructors and freefall photographers.

Further expansion of the apprenticeship programme gets a very positive thumbs-up.

Each year 10,000 recruits sign up and 95 per cent enrol on an apprenticeship programme.

Since then, the industries that provided apprenticeship training have also declined.

Any funds that go unspent by levy-paying employers are used to help to cover the cost of apprenticeship training at small businesses.

Successful candidates will begin with office administration duties before being selected for apprenticeship training.

They will receive a 10 per cent 'top-up' to the funds they put aside for apprenticeship training via that digital account and which must be spent within 18 months.

However, this hurdle can be overcome by using an apprenticeship training agency that employs apprentices and outsources them to companies for short-term projects, thereby ensuring they have continuous work.

He served a long apprenticeship before he started directing.

It was a long apprenticeship and, as eventually became clear, an erroneous one.

Although he was still in his thirties, his long apprenticeship in the cinema had given him a sure technical grasp and the ability to get the best out of actors.

But what he called his 'long apprenticeship' served him well.

Well known for his trenchant opinions, he believed that one only learnt to play jazz convincingly by a long apprenticeship on the road.

Cutting employers' national insurance contributions or providing better incentives to businesses to offer apprenticeships, training and work placements, though, just might.

With so many unemployed in this country, it could offer apprenticeships or earn-asyou-learn opportunities.

Most major clubs offer apprenticeships and backroom trainee roles starting on the minimum wage.

She spelt out some of the constraints facing the retailer as it tried to offer apprenticeships to some youngsters.

This week the royal warrant holders, which make everything from royal lace to royal lighting, will be enlisted to offer apprenticeships too.

I have to serve my apprenticeship and compete week in, week out and win six or seven times a year.

He left school at the age of sixteen to serve an apprenticeship as a carpenter-joiner.

He worked as an automotive mechanic, but was forced to cease by union rules, which required him to serve an apprenticeship.

They were made to serve an apprenticeship of 14 years, after which they were absolutely free.

His early career saw him serve an apprenticeship as a lithographic artist.