Could diploma-level apprenticeships attract more ladies to Stem jobs?
Apprenticeships have a good break up among men and women. However, the best 9% of Stem apprenticeships are taken up through girls. It is a worrying statistic that the authorities say it is trying to correct to make extra young ladies aware of the wealth of possibilities spread out by using a diploma-degree Stem apprenticeship.Lucy Rigler, deputy director of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, factors out that, although the uptake appears low, there has been an improvement of 1% amongst women in the beyond four years.“There remains plenty of paintings to do, and so we're working with the Department for Education to help encourage greater women on to those apprenticeships,” she says. “The truth they can earn as they study and gain work enjoy is an important...