But crucially, the apprenticeship schemes benefit apprentices themselves, who get a good foundation for a career, and it helps to open doors and break down barriers that some people face.
You can't have generation after generation not knowing work.
I'm not interested in on-the-job learning or on-the-job training.
Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.
Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.
Generally, when I am working, I tend to learn from my seniors and juniors.
I think many people grow on the job.
We have seen a shift in the focus of education before entering the workplace, with earning and learning the new norm.
I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.
Knowledge-based apprenticeships kickstart careers. Just look at British fashion designer Karen Millen, for example, who learned her craft through an apprenticeship scheme.
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.
Work-based learning is a game changer. It's like test driving a career, and I have seen it in action with our registered apprenticeship programs for high school students.
Working is learning.
I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.
Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.
Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
