(n.) The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.
(n.) The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
Example Sentences:
(1) The apprenticeship system for young people aged 15 and over who do not go to university is one example.
(2) For too long apprenticeships have been seen as the poor relation to higher education Time and again over the course of the last six years, austerity has hit hardest those living in the most-deprived areas.
(3) If we fail, then the whole apprenticeship opportunity will be lost once more.
(4) It is working in partnership with Skills for Health Academy North West, City of Liverpool College and local NHS trusts to deliver the first health informatics cadet apprenticeship course.
(5) The company has created an apprenticeship programme for surveyors as an alternative to university, although it also increased graduate recruits last year.
(6) He left school at 16 to serve an apprenticeship at the Savile Row tailors Anderson and Shephard, eventually making suits for Prince Charles.
(7) Millions of families are proud that their young people are now earning and learning through apprenticeships and other policies like creating jobs through the regional growth fund and supporting our innovative city deals.
(8) Brauksiepe says a key reason is Germany's dual apprenticeship programme, on which – according to the labour ministry – up to 60% of young people enrol.
(9) The rising confidence of our members paints the picture of a resilient industry on the up, despite economic headwinds in challenging overseas markets ... We want to see this continue in 2015 and for the government to get behind us even more with increased support for exporters and for apprenticeships.
(10) The apprenticeship levy is absolutely crucial to this,” he said.
(11) The report last month from the Young Women’s Trust found that although more women were now entering apprenticeships than men, they were paid less than their male counterparts and were less likely to go on to gain employment.
(12) The author describes the experiences, the series of "apprenticeships" and clinical exposures, which coalesced into his education, from teenage days in the New York Madison House settlement, through Harvard undergraduate and graduate work, to Worcester State Hospital as head of psychological services and research.
(13) The change would also simplify payrolls and encourage employers to offer apprenticeships.
(14) The government’s approach to this requires a lot more sophistication than we’ve seen so far.” Small businesses had more to cheer in the autumn statement, with many given exemption from the apprenticeship levy, and the chancellor pressing on with small business rate relief for 600,000 firms.
(15) In government, the coalition has announced 50,000 extra apprenticeship places.
(16) The government has pitched it to business as a way to end years of under-investment in training and solve skills shortages with 3m new apprenticeships by 2020.
(17) But Cameron veered from Libya to adoption, from apprenticeships to gay marriage, and on the economy, from optimism to pessimism.
(18) According to the documents, UK-based businesses would benefit from more than 60% of the cost of the project and 26,000 jobs and apprenticeships would be created during construction and after its opening.
(19) The patient is a 28-year-old hairdresser who began his apprenticeship after school and has worked in this profession since then.
(20) Apprenticeships need to be rigorous programmes of learning planned collaboratively by employers and education professionals with clear and explicit progression routes into employment.
Learning
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Learn
(n.) The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.
(n.) The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning.
Example Sentences:
(1) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(4) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(5) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(6) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(7) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
(8) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
(9) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(10) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
(11) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
(12) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(13) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
(14) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
(15) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(16) Learning disabled children made more errors at all ages than normal children.
(17) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(18) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(19) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(20) Before discharge, subjects rated six out of the seven content areas as "important" for learning.