He calls for the apprentice's accomplishments to be robustly tested and validated, and says they must include high quality attainments in maths and English for those who have not got GCSEs in the subjects before they start.
Every one of the candidates in the final rounds of interview on the Apprentice solemnly declared that they were passionate about being Sir Alan's Apprentice.
William Etty (1787-1849) initially worked as a printer's apprentice before studying art at the Royal Academy in London.
The snag is that Mr Blair, Mr Clinton's apprentice, is still on stage.
The second new film opening this weekend, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, looks like it could fall into the category of summer flops.
She was fascinated by Tokyo's apprentice geishas as they paraded around town, and she copied their fancy costumes and heavy make-up.
ECONOMIST: Kiharu Nakamura, a geisha, died on January 5th, aged 90
They argue that to extend full-blown marriage to gay people is to play sorcerer's apprentice with the most important building-block of society.
Though Trump's Apprentice franchise took another ratings hit last season--down 11% from its celebrity debut a season earlier--it continues to attract viewers and sponsors.
West Cheshire College, which runs Vauxhall Ellesmere Port's apprentice programme, has opened a new science and technology campus in Chester with specialist teaching facilities.
BBC: Vauxhall re-introduce apprenticeships at Ellesmere Port
While serving as his uncle's apprentice, Perdix was inspired by the ridges on the backbone of a fish, and invented the handy cutting tool.
The school has been calling and emailing the 28-year-old electrician's apprentice to get her to return and complete her final assignment: an exit exam.
It was Louis Sullivan's apprentice, Frank Lloyd Wright, who endowed Chicago with its most distinctive style, the "Prairie School", from a small studio in Oak Park.
"Oui, chef, " he said, echoing words he'd uttered the first time he'd met Bocuse, more than four decades earlier, as a chef's apprentice in Lyon.
Joining Ms Sinclaire at the party's inaugural conference on Friday are Katie Hopkins, a former contestant on the BBC's Apprentice show, and the right-wing broadcaster Charlie Woolf.
After the lecture, we meandered over to the Main House, built in 1815, where one can well imagine Cole and Church, mentor and student, admiring the view of their beloved mountain range from the porch over a glass of claret procured with Church's apprentice fees.
's The Apprentice, who finished a surprising fifth among preferred billionaire employers in our poll.
Time Warner 's AOL is creating a version of NBC's The Apprentice with an online reality show called The Biz.
At question time on 3 February 2011, the star of BBC TV's the Apprentice called on the government to take the matter up with the Advertising Standards Authority.
Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) AOL is creating a version of NBC's The Apprentice with an online reality show called The Biz.
Graff's first job: apprentice (which included scrubbing floors and toilets) to a jeweler named Schindler in London's Hatton Garden, historic center of the city's diamond and jewelry trade.
Donald Trump 's success with The Apprentice set the trend in motion, and this week this wildly popular show has its finale on General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC network.
Singers Meat Loaf and La Toya Jackson are among the stars vying to become Donald Trump's latest Celebrity Apprentice.
The Apprentice is the season's seventh-most-watched program in prime time, according to Nielsen, with an average audience of 19.4 million viewers.
'Well, my son's learning the trade - he's my only apprentice.
After being expelled from school at the age of 14 he took on a variety of jobs, including message boy in the printing trade, apprentice electrician, apprentice baker and builder's labourer.
The body of Electrician's Mate Fireman Apprentice Michael J.
"The Apprentice works because the show's concept and his personality meld so perfectly, " says industry analyst Jack Myers.
It will also leave a question mark over the next series of The Apprentice, as one of Chiles's BBC roles was presenting its spin-off, You're Fired.
One was about how trivial Trump's decisions on "The Apprentice" were when compared with that of the POTUS. The second ridiculed Trump for what he would allegedly do to the White House if he won: turn it into a garish-looking hotel and spa.
The theme tunes to Doctor Who and The Apprentice were played, alongside classical pieces including Copland's Hoe-Down.
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