Apprenticeships will be showcased alongside traditional degrees by the UK’s higher education admissions service, Ucas, to put vocational routes into careers on an “equal footing”, the Westminster government has announced.
Applicants will be able to search and apply for apprenticeship schemes via the Ucas hub from 2024 at the same time as they make their undergraduate degree applications.
The Department for Education said students will be shown all the possibilities for their intended career path side by side as a way of providing them with “a wider choice of high-quality options”.
Almost half the 1.5 million people registered with Ucas say they would consider an apprenticeship, the government said, but currently the service only handles admissions into higher education courses, with apprenticeship applications the responsibility of individual employers.
