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 the apprentices were all male. While in hairdressing and health and social care, they were all female.
Inspectors recommended that gender stereotyping must be tackled rigorously.
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