modern apprenticeship

British  

noun

1. an arrangement that allows a school leaver to gain vocational qualifications while being trained in a job

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Example Sentences

Abby-Leigh is now doing her modern apprenticeship and spends her time between two dairy farms.

From BBC

The company holds patriotic song contests; Uyghur students danced in ethnic dress during a “modern apprenticeship” program, according to a recent recruitment ad.

From Washington Post

There were also 26,262 modern apprenticeship starts in 2016-17, up 444 from the previous year.

From BBC

Any seat that the SNP take from the Labour Party is an enormous step towards David Cameron clinging on to power in Downing Street in May” He said he wanted some of that additional spending to go on a "future fund" for 18 and 19-year-olds not at university, college or in a modern apprenticeship.

From BBC

It also highlighted its Commonwealth Apprenticeship Initiative, which had found Modern Apprenticeship places for almost 3,600 Glasgow school leavers over the past five years, and its Commonwealth Graduate Fund, which had secured jobs for 784 graduates.

From BBC