"The BBC today announced a new technology and engineering apprentice scheme, the BBC Technology Apprenticeship, to address a critical technology skills shortage in the broadcast sector.


As part of the Open Channels initiative announced in December 2012, BBC Technology and the BBC Academy, in partnership with major UK universities and Creative Skillset, have brought together some of the UK’s biggest broadcasters (BBC, Channel 4, and ITV) and media infrastructure companies (Red Bee Media and Arqiva) to shape a common skills agenda, collaborating for the first time ever to solve a critical industry skills gap."

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The BBC technology apprenticeship scheme, the first of its kind since 1994, will recruit the first intake of 20 apprentices in September for the three-year training programme that will get them a university degree but none of the associated debt. Some of the apprentices will be offered BBC jobs after they graduate.


"It was apparent at the Olympics",  John Linwood, chief technology officer says, "that many of the broadcaster's engineers are now in their fifties."

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