ICE calls for end of stop/start infrastructure investment to boost apprenticeships
Responding to the sharp drop in engineering apprenticeship numbers, ICE Vice President, Barry Clarke, said:
"Unite stresses a very important point – this ‘stop/start’ investment in infrastructure programmes is limiting apprenticeship opportunities and damaging efforts to boost skills growth in the industry. Throwing Government money at internships and apprenticeships will not help if there are no contracts for trainees to work on and therefore no real work for them to do.
"ICE supports the policy promoted by Construction Skills, whereby one apprentice is taken on for every £1m of public money invested, and we hope to see this scheme taken up."
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For further information:
Kate Ison
ICE Media Officer
0207 665 2104
kate.ison@ice.org.uk
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) was founded in 1818 to ensure professionalism in civil engineering. It represents 80,000 qualified and student civil engineers in the UK and across the globe. The ICE has long worked with the government of the day to help it to achieve its objectives, and has worked with industry to ensure that construction and civil engineering remain major contributors to the UK economy and UK exports.