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How My City Skills Apprenticeship Has Changed My Future

City Skills provide bespoke apprenticeships ranging from Level 3 Apprenticeships. to our new Senior Leadership Level 7 (Master’s Degree) Apprenticeship. We form partnerships with businesses and schools to provide training to staff and teachers across England.

I am an employee and a Digital Marketing Apprentice at City Skills. Over the past 4 months, I have gone from someone who was not a very ‘tech-savvy’ person, with my skills reaching no further than a year 8 Internet technology class, to building an entire website. The one that you are currently visiting.

Despite not having direct abilities in website technology when I first started, I am very good at maths and art design… Read More

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