Ms Hyslop said she had learnt first-hand at an apprenticeship summit six weeks ago that financial incentives for employers were a key way of encouraging them to recruit more. The Scottish government is to spend £16m this year on funding 7,800 new apprenticeships.
The word apprenticeship seems to be used in a far broader context that it was even 10 years ago and it can be used to describe any form of training. I would like to see the details of this package in the hope that some questions are answered and these include:
1 Do these apprenticeships include a qualification recognised by a relevant industrial body?
2 Is college day release mandatory?
3 Are the employers who are receiving these £2,000 handouts compelled to employ the apprentice, even for a limited time, once the apprenticeship is completed?
If the answer to any of these questions are doubtful then these are not apprenticeships but training places.
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I'm on a training farce scam to fiddle the figures for Gordon as we're said to be in training whilst the truth is we're all still signing on but now the Government has to pay twice, first the JSA and then a fee to the private company to train us. So Tax Payers are now paying double for all under 25s on JSA and all 25+ who are termed as long term unemployed, that was six months but I think they're fiddling that too. Also all the New Deal 50+ trainees are registered as 25+ trainees to fiddle that too because 50+ the scheme is optional but they do not tell you that.
The training consists of teaching yourself basic numeracy and literacy on a PC by guess work choosing from 4 option multiple choice answers. As you can guess the answers the pass mark is wonderfully high so as to fool the public how successful this complete scam is.
Sounds like the Scottish scheme is a copy of the English one.
I asked a local employer about the £2000 pound bribe and he said it would employ someone for a month or two and then he'd have to fund the apprentice himself.
Hi Lorenzo. I think we've spoken about this before, you and me I mean.
So it's not apprenticeships just training to get numbers off the unemployed register. What a terrible shame.
What do you really want to learn?
Of course employers will take money to allegedly 'take someone on.' It's quite obvious but, after years in the training business myself, I know that the majority just abuse the system and the poor trainees/apprentices unless there is very tight, professional supervision, which I doubt there is these days.
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