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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> News and Comment >> 1% apprentices by 2016 http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1381779622 Message started by Amigo on Oct 14^th, 2013, 7:41pm

Title: 1% apprentices by 2016
Post by Amigo on Oct 14^th, 2013, 7:41pm

BBC director-general Tony Hall pledged today that 1% of the BBC’s workforce will be made up of apprentices by the end of 2016.

"Televisual" reports here

DG wants “to build a ladder of opportunity for the talented” and open up the BBC to people “from every part of the country and a greater variety of backgrounds.”

The BBC already has 70 apprentices in areas such as engineering and TV production management.