Level 4 Apprenticeship

A series of government initiatives is to be rolled out over the coming months to deal with the skills needs of employers. One area being looking at is the development of a Level 4 Apprenticeship.

"We have to get the message out that it is important to invest in higher-level skills," said Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry. "All the evidence shows that we will need more and more people with higher-level skills, as our economy moves ahead over the next 10 years," he said during a recent Westminster debate.

Equally, not everyone has to go down the route of doing a classic higher-education, university-based degree, he concedes "There are other areas in which people can demonstrate that they have the high-level skills that employers need. Some employers may want people to go into the workplace at the age of 18, rather than going down the route of a university degree or apprenticeship. That is certainly very much on our agenda and is definitely a priority for me and my department."

Author
Brian Wall

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