The Making Apprenticeships Work report by the City & Guilds Group highlights the lack of a single coherent approach to recruitment for apprentices, and warns that applicants aged 16 to 18 find it much harder to secure an apprenticeship than to enrol in a sixth form or at college or university.
The report calls for a system whereby apprenticeship recruitment better relates to the school calendar and employers are incentivised to offer all apprenticeships as opportunities between July and October, enabling more young people to see and apply for them.
At present, not all apprenticeships appear as vacancies, and those that do are advertised year-round, rather than during a set application period, as the UCAS university application system requires.
The report goes on to claim that "society has essentially misled young people" to assume that higher education is the best route to all careers.
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