The Importance of Apprenticeships in the UK

There is a real shortage of junior developer positions for all of these kind of entry-level folks to go into. The digital skills gap is costing the UK economy like 140 billion or something like that right so it's like these astronomical numbers. Not just can you code well enough to become a professional software engineer but also can you get past the gatekeeping forces of the tech industry to get that first junior engineer job? "Not everyone is either able or willing to perform that role and I think that That's a huge huge problem"