Apprenticeship recruitment calendar

The University recruits apprentices into cohorts. This enables us to: 

• develop an outreach strategy;
• align with industry, academic terms and competitors;
• streamline recruitment processes, providing more support to recruiting managers and applicants;
• create a community of apprentices at the University; and
• implement a buddy system

We compete in a candidate-led market to recruit and retain talent. Candidates increasingly expect more from employers; they are interested in employee mental health and wellbeing, diversity, equity and inclusion, flexible working, and career pathways to name a few. 

The ability to ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the application process is key to ensuring successful recruitment. To enable us to best support applicants and recruiting managers we have moved to cohort recruitment to allow the apprenticeship team to focus on our attraction and outreach strategy and developing the best apprenticeship programmes.

Cohorts run in January, April and September. We strongly encourage departments to aim towards the September cohort, as we see higher application numbers for this start date.

We will work c.30 different training providers and below you will find a list of the apprenticeship courses we currently run. However, if you do not see the course you are looking for please contact us as there are over 650 apprenticeships to choose from.