An Ofsted evaluation of the Young Apprenticeships programme found students who take part in the programme have good personal development and are enthusiastic, well motivated and well behaved. Inspectors also found that employers saw the benefits of the programme with some apprentices offered work as a result of successful work placements. But in more than half of the programmes inspected in 2006/07, gender stereotyping persisted. In the engineering and motor vehicles courses inspected...