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Company offered to sponsor son's degree

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sponsoreddegreequestion · 22/08/2023 11:25

My son has got the grades he needs to go to a very good university to study Computer Science, starting in a few weeks. This summer he has been doing a paid internship for a local hi-tech company. They have now said they'd like to set up a degree apprenticeship arrangement where they pay for his degree and he works for them in his time off.

Obviously this sounds AMAZING and we are thrilled. It won't be an official degree apprenticeship becuas presumably they can't just magic that up officially in a few weeks. We don't know all the details of the offer yet but assuming the arrangement works like other degree apprenticeships in Computer science (they pay his fees but for the uni he has already been accepted at, he works for them in the summers, still gets a bit of time off for a summer holiday) then it seems great.

But am I missing something? Is this too good to be true?

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TizerorFizz · 30/08/2023 10:39

@sponsoreddegreequestion I think he’s right to spread his wings. He won’t have a debt to be paid off. He has a graduate tax like everyone else. He will then have time to thoroughly explore the job market and see what else is out there.

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