Defence giant BAE Systems is to recruit almost 400 engineering and business apprentices this year, the highest intake since 2008.
Around one in ten of the new recruits will join the firm’s five-year higher apprentice programme, which combines on-the-job training with degree-level studies. A
round 140 young people will join the submarine-building business in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, a further 100 at the firm’s ship-building sites in Portsmouth and Glasgow and the rest spread across other BAE sites.
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