Apprenticeships, genuine or not?

I agree lots of fake apprenticeships around where the apprentices provide cheap labour sponsored by external bodies who exist by skimming off government cash from the scheme.


Answering the phone in a doctors surgery is not an apprenticeship!


They exist in our industry with various bodies advising government on how to run electrical apprenticeships whilst keeping a careful eye on their own income.


I asked at the college I taught at why we did not offer the AM2 qualification as students were doing their level 3 C&G and then going off to a college 5 miles away. I was told my college was not allowed to run it due to the close proximity of the other college running it which was authorised by the owner of the scheme under a franchise arrangement. The AM2 has been dumbed down like the other qualifications and is classed as an Endpoint assessment. 


I think the problem is public servants are no match for big business and are easily deceived by the people who come along to help them write the rules. I wonder who got sacked at the DCLG after Dame Judith Hackett reported back to Parliament after she condemned the whole suit Building Regulations ( that includes Part P) as being "not fit for purpose"?

I agree lots of fake apprenticeships around where the apprentices provide cheap labour sponsored by external bodies who exist by skimming off government cash from the scheme.


Answering the phone in a doctors surgery is not an apprenticeship!


They exist in our industry with various bodies advising government on how to run electrical apprenticeships whilst keeping a careful eye on their own income.


I asked at the college I taught at why we did not offer the AM2 qualification as students were doing their level 3 C&G and then going off to a college 5 miles away. I was told my college was not allowed to run it due to the close proximity of the other college running it which was authorised by the owner of the scheme under a franchise arrangement. The AM2 has been dumbed down like the other qualifications and is classed as an Endpoint assessment. 


I think the problem is public servants are no match for big business and are easily deceived by the people who come along to help them write the rules. I wonder who got sacked at the DCLG after Dame Judith Hackett reported back to Parliament after she condemned the whole suit Building Regulations ( that includes Part P) as being "not fit for purpose"?