Civil engineering qualifications will be delivered by apprenticeship for the first time in a move that academics say could be a “game changer” in developing an alternative entry route into the profession outside the CAO points race.

Atlantic Technological University (ATU), which will co-ordinate the new programmes, said the new apprenticeships will allow students to “earn and learn” and gain civil engineering qualifications at a fraction of the price of going to college.

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