Moving On magazine Careers and Qualifications for School Leavers

Meet Holly, Higher Apprentice with IBM who has found that being a wheelchair user is no barrier to doing an apprenticeship Holly is a higher apprentice studying for a Level 4 Business and Administration qualification whilst working as an apprentice service coordinator for IBM. Holly works with technical teams to resolves issues, reports outages to clients and tracks trends through ... Read More »

Get some career advice from Theo Paphitis who talks about the importance of employability skills. When should young people start learning about work and employability skills? As young as possible! At school is a great place to start discussing the workplace and the types of jobs young people might like to do and the employability skills they’ll need to do ... Read More »

National Apprenticeship Week 2016 (NAW 2016) promises to be even bigger and better than last year – don’t miss out on this year’s packed timetable of fantastic events! Celebrating achievement National Apprenticeship Week 2016 is a giant celebration of the achievements of both employers and apprentices and of the positive impact that they have on UK business and on upskilling ... Read More »

Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan announced plans to see vocational options in schools given the same emphasis as academic routes, but it seems that teachers need help understanding vocational options. Of course, Ms Morgan is right to question why some schools only offered vocational options to the less able pupils and her plan to have apprenticeship providers and former pupils-turned-apprentices go into ... Read More »

92% of parents think that apprenticeships are a good option, but that only 32% of them think that apprenticeships are a good option for their child. Back in the 1980s there was a lot of talk of NIMBYs – residents in favour of developments as long as they are not in my back yard. There isn’t an easy acronym for ... Read More »