Tag Archives: Apprenticeships

TfL training schemes are for apprentices who are going places

Posted on February 13, 2026 by insidecroydon

Unlike The Apprentice, Alan Sugar’s self-reverential TV programme crammed with suited wannabes and never-wases, Transport for London offers training on the job schemes where the participants are relally going places. There are 157 opportunities across the capital with TfL for … Continue reading →

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Railway offering teenagers chance to become a real apprentice

Posted on November 13, 2025 by insidecroydon

There’s no need to face the boardroom and Lord Sugar to really become an apprentice, under an application process just opened for budding engineers by Govia Thameslink Railway. Vacancies for Govia’s 2026 intake are now live, to join the country’s … Continue reading →

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It’s an F grade for Keegan over nation’s apprenticeship failings

Posted on February 8, 2024 by insidecroydon

ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, explains how apprenticeships can be a valuable means of recruitment for some employers while offering some pay to trainees, but that the Education Minister’s dabbling with ‘apprentice teachers’ looks like another ‘fail’ by this Government This … Continue reading →

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