When it comes to choosing whether or not an apprenticeship is the best route into an engineering career everyone will have their own opinions, but none are more valid than those currently undertaking an apprenticeship. Our interviews with engineering apprentices will offer you first hand advice and experience, helping you to make an informed decision about your future.

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The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.

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Interviews with Apprentices

Lauren Summers Interview

A growing number of women are challenging the stereotype of what it means to be an engineer. Brian Wall looks at the ways they are ...

Nikki Cusworth Interview

A growing number of women are challenging the stereotype of what it means to be an engineer. Brian Wall looks at the ways they are ...

Tim Richardson - HNC Electrical Engineering Apprentice

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Why I chose an Engineering Apprenticeship - Aaron Davies

Young Apprentice Aaron Davies tells us why he loves doing an apprenticeship with HDM manufacturing, the benefits of the 21st Century ...

Why I’m glad I didn’t go to university - Victoria Shepherd

When Victoria Shepherd, an MCR engineer at Arqiva , was 17, she chose an apprenticeship over a place at university. She has never looked ...

Down and Dirty

Virgin Atlantic apprentice Will McEwan was on the verge of graduating as an A licence technician when Engineering Careers caught up with ...

KMF manager - Stefan Rduch

An apprenticeship has paid off for Stefan Rduch at KMF

Career ladder

After weighing up the pros and cons Bethan Sherbourne decided that an apprenticeship held more appeal than following a university route to ...

Post industrial revolutionary

A new way must be found to make things if we are to preserve limited natural resources, says Ellen MacArthur

Apprentice in progress: Jordan Davies

Learning to use the latest technology keeps apprentice Jordan Davies interested in his work at KMF Precision Sheet Metal even when the ...

Mitel Network - Roberto Pisacreta

Employer/training provider: Mitel Networks

The future is bright

As a former engineering apprentice turned instructor, Peter Winebloom has been acutely aware of apprenticeships and how they and the wider ...

Ann Watson - EAL

Ann Watson, managing director of specialist awarding organisation EAL, talks to Engineering Apprentice about the importance of new recruits ...

A Minister for change?

Government's role in addressing the skills crisis is vital and, according to John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills ...

We’re all in it together

Andrew Reynolds Smith on the power of apprenticeships in tackling skills shortages, education shortcomings and an industry with image ...

Head for heights

Apprentice pipefitter Nathan Phillips explains why stilt-walking didn't measure up to an engineering apprenticeship

Rise of the machines

Calculations without calculators, designs without CAD, and tech drawings in French, German and Italian: Richard Morley explains to Ross ...

I started as an engineering apprentice

Andy Walker explains how an engineering apprenticeship has given his career a head start

Airbus engineering apprentice - Emma Bull

Airbus engineering apprentice Emma Bull on why apprenticeships have always been her first choice

Joshua Thompson

Joshua Thompson explains why his engineering apprenticeship is a great start to an engineering career

I started as an engineering apprentice

Ian Carnell explains how an engineering apprenticeship has opened up a great career

Art, machines and motorbikes

Engineering apprentice Natalie Toseland explains how an interest in art and design led to a career in engineering - and what an ...

Turbine-ator

Oil rigs, pirates, underwater helicopter escape training and African sunshine: Angus 'Gus' Rumgay explains how he found his dream career as ...

Hands-on winner

Ann Watson speaks to engineering apprentice Philippa Wilson about unmanned aircraft, hands-on experience and why apprentices have more ...

Allan Cook CBE, chairman of engineering design group, Atkins

Semta is at the forefront of addressing the skills crisis and now there is a new man at the forefront of Semta. Paul Fanning reports.