{"id":62832,"date":"2015-10-14T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6408489b38e558f26895c79bc46af7e9"},"modified":"2015-10-14T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:35:12","slug":"news-story-more-people-than-ever-are-doing-an-apprenticeship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62832","title":{"rendered":"News story: More people than ever are doing an apprenticeship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistical-data-sets\/fe-data-library-apprenticeships\">provisional figures<\/a> show that 2.38 million apprenticeships were delivered in the last parliament. The government is now committed to the target of delivering 3 million apprenticeships by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The figures also reveal that more than 19,200 people started a traineeship in the last academic year, a strong increase on the previous year. Traineeships provide the experience and work skills to progress into an apprenticeship or other job.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the statistics, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills has published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/more-people-than-ever-doing-an-apprenticeship\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held\">Further Education and Skills statistics<\/a> have also been published.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provisional statistics show that more people than ever are doing an apprenticeship with strong growth in the number of higher apprenticeships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}