The Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills has published a draft Apprenticeships bill. The bill includes the power to prescribe model apprenticeship agreements and, most interestingly, specifically states that such an apprenticeship agreement would be a contract of service, not a contract of apprenticeship. This is an important distinction, as those employed on a contract of apprenticeship have greater rights.

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