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There’s never been a year quite like 2020. We’ve never all had to adapt so completely and so quickly, we’ve never had to juggle work, school and childcare for so long, and we’ve definitely never heard the word ‘unprecedented’ quite so often…

With a promising vaccine, the end of lockdown, countries beginning to lift restrictions and some relief of constraints in the UK over Christmas, things appear to be finally seeming to lighten as we wind down 2020 and all begin to look forward to a possible fresh start for 2021....

Amazing Apprenticeships hosted an exclusive webinar with the Armed Forces this November to explore the vast range of apprenticeship opportunities available within the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.

It would be impossible to list all the ways that 2020 has impacted us, but what is fair to say is that each and every individual on our planet has been affected in some way by the Covid pandemic.

The longer that we live with Covid-19, the more that its disproportionate impact on different groups of people becomes apparent. Around a month ago, at the Education Leaders’ Advisory Group meeting, convened by the Careers & Enterprise Company, I was struck by the raw emotion of a group of...

Thank you for celebrating International Men’s Day with Amazing Apprenticeships!

It was a great pleasure to participate in the recent Amazing Apprenticeships webinar about widening participation in apprenticeships for people with learning difficulties, disabilities and health conditions.

Since The Genie Programme opened for applications last month, I’ve been lucky enough to have many open, honest conversations with some of the country’s biggest, boldest and most progressive apprenticeship employers about the programme.

2020 has taught us all that we need to be prepared for our plans to change. This year at Amazing Apprenticeships, our team has engaged with thousands of young people, employers and training providers to ensure that we are gathering the very latest news about apprenticeships and that we...

Supporting less advantaged individuals to access the benefits of apprenticeships has always been at the heart of my vision. The positive and life-changing difference that apprenticeships make for individuals is well documented, the gain for employers who snap them up perhaps slightly less so!