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  One thing I will say about Stagecoach is that they do have in my opinion a very good apprenticeship scheme and many stay on with the Company when they have completed their NVQ's over three and four years. The fourth year is optional depending on how well the apprentice has done in achieving his/her NVQ's.
  
  They start off by doing block release of three months at Bristol College, then three months in the workshop with a skilled person completing modules set by the college then it's back to college again for another 3 months and that is how it carries on through the first three years. They are at Bristol college with other apprentices from around the country and stay with vetted families while in Bristol and always have a room of their own so that they can study, weekends are their own to study or they can come home if they wish.
  
  It works well and they do get a good level of pay which increases annually. It must work for as I said many stay on with the Company after their apprenticeship has finished and some even climb the ladder. I know that in Stagecoach East Kent at the present time there are at least two of the five engineering managers that have gone through the apprenticeship scheme and also two of the assistant engineering managers.On top of that the current Engineering Director was an East Kent (prior to Stagecoach) apprentice,
  
  Apprenticeships do still work but part of the trouble is that in today 's world a lot of youngsters are pushed away from engineering type apprenticeships, looking more for I.T. jobs and the like. Getting your hands dirty is often considered to be for those that have underachieved at school and that way of thinking at school level certainly needs to change.

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