BAE Systems in recruitment drive
Defence giant BAE Systems is to recruit nearly 400 engineering and business apprentices this year – the highest intake in five years.
Around one in 10 of the new recruits will join the firm's five year higher apprentice programme, which combines on the job training with degree level studies.
Around 140 young people will join the submarine building business in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, while a further 100 will be posted at the firm's ship building sites in Portsmouth and Glasgow.
Group managing director Nigel Whitehead said: "Our continued commitment to the apprentice programme reflects the sustainable position of our UK business and the success of the programme in generating BAE Systems' workforce of the future.
"We like to train people from an early age and find that the combination of on the job training and academic study without debt, is a great motivator for our apprentices to stay with us."
