[walshemj]

Wow some of those are a mouthful ;-)

But your right a startup with say 5 developers trying to develop a product in a short time scale is probably not suitable for trainees.

How how do the apprenticeships is it day release or block? 1 day a week at college and working 4 days a week is not that to much to ask from an employer? especially as apprentice's probably are paid less.

I am assuming there is a system of training levies so that the cost is born across the whole of industry - when I did mine (in mech eng) we joked that the government gave the employer more in grant subsidy for us than our actual salary.