Degree Apprenticeships

[Wintom]

I was chatting to a friend at the weekend who told me their DD was doing a Social Policy Researcher degree apprenticeship. I presumed degree apprenticeships were just for engineering and accountancy type jobs.

Her DD works 2 days from home, 2 days in London and a day online doing the university element.

Her DD is paid 21k a year and will get a degree in Social Policy from the University of Kent and guaranteed job at the end of the 4 years. So over 4 years: 84k, a paid-for-degree and a grad job at the end.

She used this website: https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeships?levelIds=6&pageNumber=1

Just posting in case it is of interest to anyone else. These apprenticeships come up all the time. Her DD only applied in June and started 3 months later.

My employer runs degree apprenticeships in facilities management and customer service.

I know several of my friends' children who've gone on degree apprenticeships with Big 4 companies - accountancy, financial services, finance IT.

Aswell as civil eng and quantity surveying, more traditional construction apprenticeship disciplines.

There's quite a few about.

https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/VAC1000189363

wow... police apprenticeships are well paid.

This is the kind of thing my DS wants to do. He has looked into civil service apprenticeships. He's only 16 at the moment though so has just started looking I thought they would be very hard to come by though.

Thank you for sharing @Wintom

I run nursing degree apprenticeships- they are not just for the two subjects you mention.

The gov site isn’t the best one to look for apprenticeships. It is just a vacancy site, and doesn’t advertise all of them.

You may also want to look at Rate my Apprenticeship. Not Going to Uni, The Apprenticeship Guide. Research employers, and your child should start following employers on LinkedIn. Also, look at level 4 and level 5 too- some great opportunities at those levels, and it’s possible to top up to the full degree level.

You may also want to look at Rate my Apprenticeship. Not Going to Uni, The Apprenticeship Guide. Research employers, and your child should start following employers on LinkedIn

I know a couple of young people who've got theirs through Indeed so that's worth checking as well.

Also, look at level 4 and level 5 too- some great opportunities at those levels, and it’s possible to top up to the full degree level.

My DGodD is currently doing this. Started out at level 4 and employer is paying for her to get her degree.

Thank you this is really helpful. My son is interested in biomedical sciences.
Do you know if you can live in university halls while doing a degree apprenticeship?

My friends DS did the Police apprenticeship, qualified 2 or 3 years now. He had to work as a police officer at the same time. I think he had the occasional month in University full time but it was mainly work and study alongside while working FT. Whenever I popped round to hers he would be working if not on duty.

No I don’t believe you can. Apprentices are part time and don’t do the degree in 3 years.

Also for civil engineering, many anpprenticeships are BEng. The best grads will be MEng. MEng is fast track to getting fully qualified and earning more. BEng doesn’t lead directly to CEng.

They are fantastic, but there really are tiny numbers of them, and a lot of employers use them to up skill their existing staff rather than recruit school leavers. I think I read somewhere there was something like 4000 new starters for the whole of the UK last year. I work in a 6th form school, its far easier to get into a decent university than to secure a degree apprenticeship. So you often need university as a back up or to apply for Level 3 Apprenticeships with a company that offers degree ones so you are in a good position to move up once the company decides you are worth investing in. The students in our school who get them are really outstanding, not necessarily all A / A* but they are always independent, self motivated, confident, self starters. Applying in a Gap year also makes sense as the application process can be multiple stages and doesn't always fit well with revision /exams.

The UCAS website has some good information about higher and degree apprenticeships.
Apprenticeships are approximately 80% of the time at work, 20% study time.

@6namechange3 4,000 would be very low. I thought they were getting up to 10,000 school leavers. You are correct though, as can be seen from anecdotes on other threads, they are used to up skill existing workers. We still have around 330,000 a year starting university. Apprentices are a drop in the ocean and you won’t get a degree from LSE or Imperial either.