Goldman Sachs will start training apprentices directly on its London trading floor for the first time next year, feeding into wider efforts to boost social mobility across the UK’s financial sector.
The programme, which is part of an apprenticeship scheme launched in partnership with Queen Mary University in east London, will combine paid on-the-job training with study over four years, offering students a chance to gain hands-on experience in a sector still struggling to attract candidates from less-affluent backgrounds.
The programme, which opens for recruitment on Monday, comes nearly a year after the Treasury and business department launched an independent taskforce to address a lack of socioeconomic diversity across financial and
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