Returnerships | Virgin Media O2 apprentice, 45, on why age is no barrier when it comes to career changing

Picture an apprentice. What do you see? Most likely a teenager, more often than not a male, and most likely learning some form on manual labour.

And not without reason. Around 50% of UK residents who took up an apprenticeship between 2021 and 2022 were under the age of 24. One in five were under the age of 19.

So you’re probably not thinking of a 45-year-old dad from Greater Manchester. But Andrew Rodgers is one of many modern apprentices changing that stereotype.