Provisional figures for this academic year show that around 3.7 per cent fewer 19- to 24-year-olds started apprenticeships between August and October than the year before, while the numbers of 16- to 18-year-old new starts were down 17.3 per cent for level 2 apprenticeships and 12.7 per cent for advanced apprenticeships.
The number of people starting an apprenticeship rose by a fifth in the last academic year, although the number of 16- to 18-year-olds successfully completing a course fell. According to figures released yesterday 107,000 16- to 18-year-olds embarked on an apprenticeship in 2007/8, 90,100 19- to 24-year-olds, 27,200 25-year-olds and over, and 600 under-16s. The growth in the overall number of starts is driven by a steep rise in over-25s, from 300 the previous year.
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