{"id":194,"date":"2014-08-19T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-08-28T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T09:39:05","slug":"boost-engineering-apprenticeships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/boost-engineering-apprenticeships\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost for Engineering Apprenticeships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has committed to investing \u00a330 million in the engineering sector, with particular focus on increasing the supply of engineers, inspiring women to join the sector and eliminating skills shortages in small engineering businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maintenance-Engineering-Apprenticeship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-146\" src=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maintenance-Engineering-Apprenticeship-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Maintenance Engineering Apprenticeship\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maintenance-Engineering-Apprenticeship-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maintenance-Engineering-Apprenticeship.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we have discussed here in the ATG News pages before, there are several different types of <a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/maintenance-engineering.html\">Engineering Apprenticeships available<\/a>, and lots of different job roles that you could go for. And engineering is changing from being such a male orientated profession, with more women now joining the sector \u2013 just look at <a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/casestudies\/engineering\/cernfaychicken.php\">ATG Apprenticeships Engineering Apprentice Fay Chicken<\/a>, who was the only girl on her Engineering Apprenticeship course, but loved her training and has now gone on to a brilliant job role with CERN.<\/p>\n<p>If you think that an Engineering Apprenticeship might be for you, take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/electronics-engineering.html\">latest vacancies here<\/a> on the ATG Apprenticeships website to see if there\u2019s one that suits you. But if you\u2019re interested in applying, you\u2019ll need to be quick as many of these vacancies have closing dates of the end of August, so don\u2019t delay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has committed to investing \u00a330 million in the engineering sector, with particular focus on increasing the supply of engineers, inspiring women to join the sector and eliminating skills shortages in small engineering businesses. As we have discussed here in the ATG News pages before, there are several different types of Engineering Apprenticeships available, and lots of different job roles that you could go for. And engineering is changing from being such a male orientated profession, with more women now joining the sector \u2013 just look at ATG Apprenticeships Engineering Apprentice Fay Chicken, who was the only girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[58],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boost for Engineering Apprenticeships - Latest ATG Apprenticeships News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UK government has committed to investing \u00a330 million in the engineering sector which is a boost for anyone looking for engineering apprenticeships.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/atgapprenticeships.com\/blog\/boost-engineering-apprenticeships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boost for Engineering Apprenticeships - 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