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Boris to help take on 3,000 apprentices
Katharine Barney, Evening Standard23 Feb 2009
Boris Johnson today announced plans to create 3,000 apprenticeships over the next three years.
A raft of training opportunities, including work placements, will be on offer to coincide with the start of National Apprenticeship Week.
They will cover fields ranging from customer services to electrical engineering. The aim is to create a better skilled workforce and boost the capital's economy.
Employers will include Transport for London and its contractors, which will be recruiting about 650 adult and 115 young apprentices over the next year.
The Metropolitan Police Service and Met Police Authority are, meanwhile, advancing plans to provide more than 150 apprenticeships. The Greater London Authority group is also establishing an apprenticeship scheme in business administration, which will provide about 15 training places this year.
Mr Johnson, head of the London Skills and Employment Board, said: "I urge employers from across London's sectors to follow our lead."
Reader views (7)
Perhaps Boris should start with a ‘Mayoral Apprenticeship’..and then enrol himself...
- Ade, London, 26/02/2009 13:19
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Boris YOUR FIRED!
- Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex, 24/02/2009 21:11
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Apprentices? Is that another term for "YOPS" from the 80s?
- Steve, Gloucestershire, 24/02/2009 14:13
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How many of these jobs will go to Britons or will they go to Poles and Africans.
- Bob Benson, Gillingham Kent, 23/02/2009 14:47
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He's already got 600 layabouts in the GLA that no one else would employ.
- M Farbiash, Highgate, 23/02/2009 14:39
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Exactly what jobs will these apprentices be able to get when their time is over? All our jobs are either out scourced abroad or are filled with foreign labour from the EU and beyond. Try going to France, Spain or Germany and finding work as a plumber, bricklayer, electrician etc. You will be told that your City & Guilds, NVQ's are not accepted. Only when the UK insists that all labour domestic and foreign have qualifications that are eual and relevent EU wide will this farce be overcome. Its no good having an uneven playing field which at the moment is causing so much discontent.
- Terence Harrington, Canterybury, UK, 23/02/2009 10:48
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Given the rate at which he gets through deputy mayors, 3,000 apprentices should last him about two years.
- Charlie, Soho, London, 23/02/2009 09:51
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