To be eligible, workers have to be enrolled on an apprenticeship training course for a minimum of 12 months.
At the end of the debate Labour's amendment to require "best" efforts to be made to ensure that employers participate in the provision of apprenticeship training was defeated by 285 votes to 191, majority 94.
From summer 2013, young people will be expected to stay until the age of 17 in full-time education or an apprenticeship or employment with training.
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Scott Upton, vice principal of Sandwell College in Birmingham, said a formal apprenticeship is the "gold standard of vocational training" and rushing candidates through an apprenticeship programme will devalue the entire system.
This can be a community college or a four-year school, vocational training or an apprenticeship.
The strategy includes a committment to ensure every 16-19 year old in Scotland who is not in work, an apprenticeship or education will be offered a place in education or training and a commitment to deliver 25, 000 modern apprenticeships.
The company's training arm said of 2, 280 applicants to its apprenticeship scheme, 81% were not employable.
And to understand how this learning process operates, it is useful to look at the greatest system ever invented for the training of skills and the achievement of tacit knowledge the apprenticeship system of the Middle Ages.
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The government is guaranteeing every single 16 to 19-year-old in Scotland will be offered a learning or training place if they are not in already in a job, a Modern Apprenticeship or in education.
Their training is long and bookish: degrees in law and art history, and then an apprenticeship of three years.
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