We're delighted to announce that Atlas has been chosen as one of the top 100 employers in the UK today! As part of this we have been listed in The Times and The Sun newspapers.

Those of you who know us will already be aware that we do lots of work with the apprenticeship scheme.  Simon sits on the Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network and Atlas has won two awards for its proactive involvement in apprenticeships.

We've also been sent a nice plaque to add to our collection, and this logo:

What we're most proud of is the software developer apprenticeship framework we worked with Microsoft and e-Skills in order to design.  We were then one of the first handful of companies in the UK to take on an apprentice focused solely on the development of software. For us this was a huge win. We had identified a missing apprenticeship as an opportunity and rather than just moaning about it to our peers - we had the opportunity to fix it and we did!

We feel there is a lack of computer programmer talent here in the UK, and we've taken real steps to fix this. This will of course benefit not just us but 100's of other companies across the UK and therefore the software industry as a whole. Put simply, we're quite proud of the work we're doing.

Anyway, that's enough high fiving for now.  We have work to be getting on with and I won't rest until apprenticeships are regarded as equal in authority to that of "traditional" education paths promoted by most colleges and universities.  We've lots of work left to do.