Uptake of science apprenticeships grows

John Holman with a female and a male student, all wearing safety goggles and gloves, in a lab

Source: Stonehouse Photographic / Royal Society of Chemistry

Getting started wih lab tech and lab scientist apprenticeships

The government’s ambition to create three million apprenticeships could be revised, possibly because this target looks harder to achieve with apprenticeship numbers significantly down since the introduction of the apprenticeship levy. However takeup of in the reformed lab tech and lab scientist apprenticeships is rising. 

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