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Banks boost UK jobs with new apprenticeships

High street banks will create new apprenticeship schemes and offer more places to young people.

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Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and 皇冠体育app Rt Hon John Hayes CBE MP
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8 February 2012
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皇冠体育app announcements were made at a in Canary Wharf, as part of National Apprenticeship Week. 皇冠体育app focus was on the creation of new apprenticeship routes into employment.

Banks taking part include:

  • Barclays - 1000 new apprenticeships across England and Wales with a major programme in April
  • HSBC - an extra 688 apprentices bringing the total number of employees within its apprenticeship scheme to 1,000 by the end of 2012
  • Santander to launch an apprenticeship scheme that will see up to 50 people offered places at the bank

Speaking at the event, Skills Minister John Hayes said:

鈥淚 am delighted that these banks are investing in apprenticeships which will help them secure the high-quality skills they need to create economic growth and provide new pathways to excellence for the brightest and best young people.

鈥淐reating a highly skilled workforce that can take on the best in the world means seeing apprenticeships as an access route to the professions.鈥�

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Published 8 February 2012