Types of apprenticeships

Roles by sector and level including higher and degree apprenticeships. Explains the duties and skills involved. 

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Guidance and regulation

• Flexi-job apprenticeships using an approved agency
  • Guidance
  • 28 October 2024
  • Department for Education
• Become an apprentice at Dstl
  • Detailed guide
  • 14 March 2024
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) apprenticeships
  • Detailed guide
  • 23 January 2024
  • Defence Equipment and Support

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News and communications

• Dstl careers: Ellie, engineering apprentice
  • 22 June 2023
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • Case study
• Without skills, businesses are “driving with the handbrake on”
  • 22 June 2023
  • Department for Education, Department for Business and Trade, and HM Treasury
  • Press release
• New programme aimed to boost diversity in boardrooms
  • 2 September 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Press release
• 250 HS2 apprentices on track for success
  • 4 March 2019
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Press release
• Apprenticeship trailblazers continue to gain momentum
  • 27 June 2014
  • Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department for Education
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• ApprenticeshipsNI Statistical Bulletin - Oct 17 to Jan 24
  • 31 July 2024
  • Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • Official statistics
• Higher Level Apprenticeships at HE Institutions in NI, 2021/22
  • 24 May 2023
  • Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • Official statistics
• Level 2 Traineeships Fact Sheet, academic year 2021/22
  • 23 February 2023
  • Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • Official statistics
• ApprenticeshipsNI: Quarterly Statistics from August 2013 to July 2022.
  • 3 February 2023
  • Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • Official statistics
• Higher Level Apprenticeships at NI FE colleges & CAFRE, academic years: 2017/18 - 2021/22
  • 3 February 2023
  • Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • Official statistics

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Department for Business & Trade
• HM Treasury

• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Defence Equipment and Support

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• High Speed Two (HS2) Limited