apprentice

If you are under 19, or if you are 19 or older but in the first year of your apprenticeship, you will be paid at least the apprentice rate, external of £8 per hour.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

"The modern apprentice is increasingly learning two things at once: the practical skill of making, and the digital skill of using technology to understand what is happening in production," explains Iveson.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The term “masterpiece” originally referred to the work produced by an apprentice to prove that he was entitled to become a master.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The 19-year-old college student compares herself to an apprentice learning from a master artisan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

“All the more reason to get our hands on this apprentice as soon as possible and put an end to this,” says Magnus.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

But the craft is in peril due to inflation, fewer skilled apprentices and other challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

A spokesperson said apprentices at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust were inadvertently underpaid between 2019 and 2023.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

U.K. companies hired 8% more apprentices in 2025, while hiring of college graduates contracted by 8%, according to a survey in 2025 by the Institute of Student Employers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The firm said the prospects and progression of its apprentices has been no different from others coming in through different routes, including graduate programs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Only top craftsmen and young apprentices continued to work the stones.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

"After his studies in London, he was apprenticed to other stonemasons to help in the construction of the Houses of Parliament," Simmons said.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

In Pompeii, there are Avianius, a teenager apprenticed to a blacksmith, and Julia Felix, a rare female businesswoman who runs a kind of spa cum entertainment center for the well-to-do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

He apprenticed in Paris with Constantin Brancusi—who had briefly assisted Auguste Rodin—absorbing a sculptural vocabulary grounded in direct carving and essential form.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The younger Angel played sax in the family band, went to barber college in Pasadena, apprenticed in Williams, then came home in 1950 to take over his father’s old shop along Route 66.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

‘I did it last July. I am ... I was apprenticed to a silversmith. I burned it on hot silver.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The boys’ father started his life in a Lower East Side tenement before apprenticing as a lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

His uncles started a group called Banda La Movida, and Vallejo is still teaching himself acoustic guitar when he’s not apprenticing as a hat maker at Márquez Clásico, crafting tejanas and sombreros de charro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

Some say she has been apprenticing as a cobbler in the Italian countryside; others, that she’s formed an ice cave—and won the trust of indigenous penguin tribes—in Antarctica.

From Slate ● May 25, 2024

By the next year, she was studying at Tokyo University of the Arts and apprenticing at Handa Kyuseido, a relative newcomer in the multigenerational-family conservator field.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Mahmoud wanted Mohammed, and all of his sons, working on dry land, so Mohammed spent his early teenage years as a craftsman, laying brick and apprenticing for an ironsmith.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers