Graduates wish they had done an apprenticeship

Posted on 13 Mar 2013 by Tim Brown

According to a recent poll of 1,774 people who graduated in the last two years, 76% said they were not informed about the alternatives to university before leaving school.

Of these, more than half (54%) said they would have picked an apprenticeship or vocational training route instead of their degree had had they received better information. The top reasons why the graduates would have opted for vocational training as opposed to university were to avoid debt (77 per cent); to gain a better position…

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