Apprenticeship Programmes
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-20
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Rose Conway-Walsh (SF), Mayo

I thank the Minister of State. I very much welcome that. Is there a single portal where young people can gain access to information on apprenticeships? Could we think about developing a separate app just for apprenticeships so we could make people, particularly the young, aware of what is available and what an apprenticeship might mean for them? Over recent years, apprenticeships have been the poor relation to third level education. There is no point in our having all these apprenticeships if we are not communicating effectively with the people who need to access them and if we are not encouraging people and dealing with employers. We know from research that a genuine issue arises over career guidance available to students. This has a knock-on effect.

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