My Starting Wage Was Pounds 29.50 ; Business Lunch Oliver Astley

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Sponsored by CRITICISED for exploiting school leavers and mocked in the media with trainees labelled dunderheads, the Youth Training Scheme got a lot of stick when it was introduced in the 80s.

Jef Todd has no complaints about YTS, though, because it gave him his first tastes of civil and structural engineering. Now an associate director at BSP Consulting on Pride Park, he counts himself lucky.

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My Starting Wage Was Pounds 29.50 ; Business Lunch Oliver Astley

He said: "I never fancied doing A-levels, didn't quite know what to do next and hadn't done much research but I was inwere terested in the idea of engineering."

After leaving school in 1988, he was taken on at Joynes Pike and Associates on ...

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