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Michael Millward discusses Apprenticeships on BBC Radio York - 07-02-2011 | Abeceder managing director Michael Millward joined presenter Elly Fiorentini on the BBC Radio York Drive Time Show this afternoon at the start of Apprenticeship Week to discuss how changes in education and society are changing attitudes towards leadership and management in the work place.
Mr. Millward explained that today’s managers know that the deferential style they had to adopt with managers when they left education is not something the school leavers of today expect to have to comply with. Our education system produces people with enquiring minds who want to know as much about the why as they do about the what, and the how of a job.
Even with high levels of youth unemployment young people know the value of education, and with many seeing further education as a quick way to get saddled with debt they are increasingly looking at apprenticeships in the same way as their grandparents did, as a way to earn and learn at the same time.
Employers explained Mr. Millward, are also looking favourably at apprenticeships as a way of recruiting raw developable talent. It is not just the trades and service industries that are using apprenticeships either. You are as likely to get an apprenticeship in accountancy or insurance as you are in plumbing or car mechanics.
Being an apprentice means that you are recognised as someone who is on a planned programme of development with both academic and practical elements, and is paid for the work you do.
Both Miss Fiorentini and Mr Millward acknowledged that although they had not been known as apprenticeships when they first started work they had both had what is now known as an apprenticeship. Mr Millward started his HR career in 1981 on a training programme with the NHS that gave him experience of every HR function whilst studying for professional qualifications. He has subsequently had an international HR career. Miss Fiorentini joked that the highlight must be his fortnightly visits to BBC Radio York!
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