Best apprenticeship to do

Four years' in college is worth more than four years' experience in the field? (Or five now that the unis have also started selling Masters because people are willing to pay for an edge over the thousands of engineering graduates that unis are churning out every year...) I find that hard to believe - even ignoring the difference in cost/payment.

A degree is a big commitment - moneywise and timewise; realistically, she'll complete it once she starts. If during an apprenticeship she decides it isn't for her, she'll only have spent a year on it, and it still looks good on the CV. Whereas a year of a degree programme leaves you with nothing to show but emptier pockets.

The "college life" is worth experiencing at some stage, for sure, but do not place too much value on the actual piece of paper - colleges give those to anyone who is willing to give them money and wait a few years.

No, did a separate course specialising in auto wiring and diagnostics.