New College Durham offers a wide variety of employment opportunities, where apprentices can be employed within these roles and also study towards an apprenticeship programme.

The types of posts that have been recruited to recently are: administration, catering and customer services.

Depending on the sector and job role an Apprenticeship can take anything between one and four years to complete. It is a package of on-the-job training and qualifications.

Research shows that Apprenticeships are an optimal way of training, developing and skilling people for the future, helping businesses to secure a supply of people with the skills and qualities they need and which are often not available on the external job market.