Are degree apprenticeships ready to graduate?

The challenge with Apprenticeships is more time is spent on timesheets and administration than is spent in learning. There needs to be an app that takes away the pain of admin so apprentices can get on with working and studying.

It is worth acknowledging that the skills needed by academics to work well in the apprenticeship space are different from those required on a more traditional pathway. I have seen very little acknowledgement of this to date and that will limit growth and quality going forward.

Thank you very much for your article, Tom. I'd like to discuss several topics in detail - for sure not agreeing with all your views and probably suggesting solutions :). But more important, your article shows how blind we are in Germany. Bending to international standards instead of fostering our strength in education by remembering that Master and Bachelor are actually terms from the medieval "Meister und Geselle" Konzept - combining learning an doing to the best. Sorry for the self-promotion, but maybe you're a little interested in our PKS approach at the School of Managment and Technology at Steinbeis University (sorry again for some more German: PKS = Projekt-Kompetenz-Studium).