FINANCIAL TIMES: Brexit expected to boost UK apprenticeship programme

  • Chris Bones

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Businesses are struggling to find qualified replacements against a backdrop of record numbers of people in work and unemployment of just 4.2 per cent. The NHS, banking and tech sectors are all dependent on immigrant workers, according to Chris Bones, a professor at the Alliance Manchester Business School. “The challenge to industry is to grow more of their own,” he said.

Period30 Aug 2018

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  • TitleBrexit expected to boost UK apprenticeship programme
    Media name/outletFinancial Times
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date30/08/18
    DescriptionBusinesses are struggling to find qualified replacements against a backdrop of record numbers of people in work and unemployment of just 4.2 per cent. The NHS, banking and tech sectors are all dependent on immigrant workers, according to Chris Bones, a professor at the Alliance Manchester Business School. “The challenge to industry is to grow more of their own,” he said.
    URLhttps://www.ft.com/content/9650dcc6-86b4-11e8-a29d-73e3d454535d
    PersonsChris Bones
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Keywords

  • Brexit
  • employment
  • apprenticeships