Apprenticeships could help reduce the impact of an expected IT brain drain on the public sector as private sector recruitment rises on the back of a recovering economy.

As the economy picks up top tech staff may be persuaded away from the public sector by the bigger pay packets and better promotion potential offered by the private sector. According to public sector IT body Socitm this is a “looming problem for the sector”, and it warns that public sector employers in the southeast of England are already reporting “severe competition” from the finance sector in London.

via ​Can apprenticeships halt the tech brain drain? – TechRepublic.