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no progression where I was, so I
started looking at apprenticeships; there
were the same stigmas around apprentices
as there are now, but the more I did, the
better they seemed,” says Roberts. She
believes apprenticeships offer young
people the chance to learn transferable
skills and gain on-the-job training.
However, she’s keen to stress that
apprenticeships need not always be an
alternative to higher education.
Alternative gap year
“An apprenticeship can almost be like a
gap year,” she says. “You can do one for a
year, earn a salary, learn new skills; it can
bring you closer to what you want do.
“People think it’s university or an
apprenticeship, but you can do both. Do
an accountancy apprenticeship and if it’s
your passion, do a degree. If it’s not, you
don’t have the debt you would from
studying but you do have the experience
and tr