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Barclays to offer 1000 apprenticeships at London offices

AUTHOR | Amy Edwards @ March 2, 2012 9:42 am | Comments (0)

Barclays has opened its new apprenticeship scheme at its offices in London.

The £20 million scheme will offer 1000 apprenticeships to young people with no prior skills or qualifications. Barclays has announced it is to offer 1000 apprenticeships to young people with no prior skills or qualifications at its London offices. The £20 million Barclays Apprenticeship Programme opened yesterday and has been designed to offer young people an opportunity to carve out a career in banking. Although Barclays says the scheme is 100% independent, the announcement comes just days after the Prime Minister David Cameron announced an employer ownership of skills pilot which encourages businesses to take on apprentices and offers £250 million in public investment for skills training. (more...)