Im in my final year of doing one and its rubbish. Your going to find it hard to find one at the moment aswell with so many engineering companys making employees re-dundant at the momment. The engineering industry isnt a very nice place to work at the moment. I went to a college with alot of aprentices from large companys suchs as GKN drive line, goodrich etc. most of the companys are making alot of workers redundant at the moment. As an aprentice your pretty much immune to redundancys, but it doesnt garantee you a job when your out of your time.

Do urself a favour, stay at school, go to uni..by the time your finished the economy might of settled down and you will be better qualified.

I regret not going to uni even though i had the qualifications to get in.