News

• Go-Ahead's Manchester bus company, Go North West, to hire 300 drivers on apprenticeship or training contracts
• The drivers will operate Bee Network buses as part of mayor Andy Burnham's new integrated transport network

• Education regulator endorses quality of Go-Ahead bus and rail apprenticeship schemes
• Inspectors find that bus drivers enjoy and value their training, and are enthusiastic about their jobs
• Ofsted praises “thoughtfully structured” rail scheme at Govia Thameslink Railway
• Go-Ahead is on course to hit a target of hiring 1,100 apprentices this year

• The Go-Ahead Group sets a goal of hiring more than 1,100 apprentices across bus and rail in 2021
• Transport operator bucks the economy-wide trend of falling apprenticeship starts
• Two thirds of Go-Ahead’s apprentices will be deployed on London buses

• Apprenticeship applications double in rail and jump by a third in bus as transport attracts Coronavirus career switchers
• Despite the challenges of 2020, Go-Ahead has continued to invest in its workforce for the future
• Recruits include a former airline pilot, a member of the French Foreign legion, a prison van driver and a guitar instructor

• The Go-Ahead Group will expand apprentice recruitment by 20 per cent for 2020
•  Go-Ahead met its target of recruiting 1,000 apprentices in 2019
• The expansion is bucking the wider national trend of falling apprenticeship starts

• Go-Ahead has set a target to recruit over 1,000 new apprentices, across the rail and bus network, by the end of 2019
• Go-Ahead is the only public transport operator registered as an approved provider delivering apprenticeships across both bus and rail
• 65% of new apprentices at Go-Ahead London have come from BAME backgrounds and one-in-five of the positions have been filled by women

5 March 2019 –The Go-Ahead Group announces today that it will double the number of apprentices in its ranks over the course of 2019, as its bus company Go-Ahead London opens the doors of a new recruitment and training academy in South London.