Apprenticeships

Heidelberg will welcome 125 new starters to its apprenticeship programme on 1 September, with 87 training at the company’s Wiesloch-Walldorf site, just south of the company’s home city of Heidelberg.

The UK’s apprenticeship system is desperately in need of an overhaul, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

There are several routes into the world of print but one, the apprenticeship, can bring the young into an ageing sector and enable businesses to mould recruits to their way of working.