The poll discovered that 44 per cent of businesses plan to take on apprentices in the next five years. This compares to 36 per cent when the same question was asked a year ago.
The research involved 600 businesses and also found that
20 per cent of small and medium enterprises intend to hire one or more apprentices in the next 12 months, while 37 per cent of larger businesses plan to do the same.
Around a third of those that plan to take on apprentices say this is because they are “a core part of their growth strategy”.
National Apprenticeship Week kicked off on Monday (March 3) and has seen business secretary Vince Cable pay a visit to BT, which recently announced that they would take on 730 more apprentices over the next year.
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