Scottish Apprenticeship Week

Cabinet secretary for housing Màiri McAllan visited Barratt Homes’ Tower Street at Merchant Quay development in Leith on Thursday 5 March to mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week and meet with current and former apprentices building their careers in the construction industry.

Glasgow-based NBM Construction Cost Consultants is marking Scottish Apprenticeship Week by highlighting the contribution its Quantity Surveying apprentices make to live developments across Scotland.

The Scottish Government's plans to address the housing emergency or achieve necessarily ambitious climate change targets could fall flat if more isn’t done to entice young people into the construction sector, according to a new report released this Scottish Apprenticeship Week.

Scottish Labour’s spokesperson for local government and housing visited local apprentices at Persimmon’s Royale Meadows development.

Scottish Apprenticeship Week takes place from 4-8th March and this year celebrates the theme of Skills Generation. As Share is one of the only delivery partners for the Modern Apprenticeship (MA) in Housing, Learning and Development Officer and MA Assessor Julie-Ann Cloherty reflects on what this me

Wheatley Group is helping young people kick start their career by recruiting more apprentices in May. The group will be recruiting up to 15 school leavers to its award-winning Modern Apprenticeship programme – with more to follow later in the year.

The apprentices with Mary Taylor, SFHA chief executive (left) and housing minister Margaret Burgess. Housing minister Margaret Burgess marked the start of Scottish Apprenticeship Week (May 18-22) by launching a national challenge for housing apprentices yesterday.