PwC ups apprentice intake and expands into new areas

Professional services and accountancy firm PwC has increased the size of this year’s Higher Apprentice intake to 120, a 10% increase on last year.
Tue, 6 Aug 2013Professional services and accountancy firm PwC has increased the size of this year’s Higher Apprentice intake to 120, a 10% increase on last year.

The expanded intake includes new vacancies in the firm’s business recovery services team, while other roles, all of which start this autumn or winter, are in tax and management consulting.

The two-year programmes, based in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Hull and Belfast, have been well received by school leavers, PwC notes, having received more than 1,500 applicants for 60 tax apprenticeship vacancies launched in February.


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