Has anyone heard back from the BBC about the 2020 Production Apprenticeships?

nope, emailed them though

I've received an email from the BBC about it... Looks like they are pausing the recruitment process :'(

This isn't good news. I hope that the BBC finds a way to recruit for their apprentice scheme. For me it's a goal I've had for years and years now and I'm truly upset that the BBC is going to cancel this entire year and start again next year. Covid is rapidly creating a lost year of young people who were unlucky enough to finish school or university around this time, and many of our opportunities have suddenly disappeared. These opportunities won't come along again until next year and we'll be overlooked because there's another group of thousands of young people behind us who want exactly the same chances. Fate has ripped our dreams to pieces but we can't complain because it's a global health crisis and there's many people out there who have been pushed into poverty or who have lost loved ones. Moaning about a BBC apprenticeship being taken away is nothing compared to that, but in the same way it's everything for us. This is our future. And now it's gone.

I doubt the BBC is reading this but if they are I really can't say strongly enough how important it is for this apprenticeship to go forward. I don't care what you need to do to hire us. Pick from the video interviews we've already done. Give us fifteen minutes with somebody to interview us using Zoom. Please don't toss us into the dump like we're useless to you because the students finishing school or university or college this summer are going to be brutally disadvantaged in lifechanging ways. Especially those going into creative industries that have suddenly shut down. I honestly can't see that the apprenticeship scheme is costly to run other than the college side which might be hard with social distancing. So why not hire into junior positions that have no college? Get a group of us in to just work and help out and give us the opportunity to show that we've got something valuable to offer. It doesn't have to be an apprenticeship. We could easily work as runners or assistants or anything. Just don't throw us in the bin after all the work we've put in over the past few years getting to this point.

Has anyone heard anything?

Wish they would give us updates as I really want to know wuts going on am curious lols but then again they need to be able to tell us the full story so I don't mind waiting I just think the more we wait the better chance as if they got back to soon its likely it might not go ahead this way they are still giving it a chance. And things are improving so heads up people it's looking good I hope 😊❤️

My BF was fuloughed and his employer gave him weekly updates each Friday afternoon. Even though there was not much info other than "more waiting sorry" and "we don't know yet" it was still better than silence. They really do need to give us an update soon because it's been ages. I know they're probably thinking "oh don't worry about those people because it's not like they have anything else better to be getting on with during the lockdown" but some of us really do have other things going on. Some are deciding on university. Some are looking at opportunities in other areas of the industry that are starting to pick up again. Some are deciding that media is far too unstable for any kind of long term career and are rethinking their plans. The more we're left out here to sit and wait, the more the highly motivated ones will be searching for things outside the BBC.

Come on BBC, an update is much needed. At the very least we need to be told whether the scheme is cancelled for this year or whether you're starting to think about interviewing us. We don't need dates or details if you don't have them. I can't believe that nobody inside BBC HR knows what's happening though in a very broad sense!!!