Apprenticeships
Why the public sector must embrace apprenticeships
Requirements for public sector employers to ensure a certain percentage of their workforce is apprentices may pose some organisational challenges,...
Personnel Today Awards 2018 shortlist: Apprenticeship Employer of the Year
How are employers making the most of training budgets since the introduction of the apprenticeship levy? Shortlisted companies in our...
Apprenticeship provider 3aaa goes into administration
A national training organisation that claims on its website to have “created more opportunities than any other apprenticeship provider” has...
How we can fix the apprenticeship levy
Employers have an opportunity to shape the future of apprenticeships when the government publishes a consultation on the apprenticeship levy’s...
Personnel Today Awards 2018 shortlist: Excellence in Public Service HR Award
The Excellence in Public Service HR Award celebrates HR departments in public sector organisations that have helped deliver stronger performance,...
MPs demand action to improve apprenticeship quality
Apprenticeships do not offer sufficiently high quality training and too many disadvantaged people are missing out, claims a damning Education...
Apprenticeship levy reforms revealed by chancellor
Employers will be able to transfer a quarter of their apprenticeship levy-subsidised training fund to another organisation, under a package...
Civil service to boost diversity through apprenticeship
The civil service is looking to hire its first wave of apprentice economists, including school leavers, in a bid to...
Apprenticeships vital to improving prospects for disadvantaged people
Apprenticeships and other “earn and learn” programmes are key to improving social mobility and addressing the UK’s productivity gap, a...
Employers attack plan to cut management apprenticeship funding
Employers are demanding that the government rejects proposals to cut funding of management apprenticeships.
Independent public body the Institute of...
Government appears to drop 3 million apprenticeships target
The government may be about to concede defeat over its promise to create three million apprenticeships by April 2020 drawing...
Employers prefer apprenticeship experience over university degrees
As thousands of students receive their A-level results this week, employers have revealed that the experience gained in an apprenticeship...
Remaining Carillion apprentices to be made redundant
Almost 350 apprentices employed by collapsed construction giant Carillion will be made redundant after alternative jobs for them were not...
Growing your business with apprenticeships (webinar)
ON DEMAND | Hiring an apprentice is a productive and efficient way for any business to cost-effectively recruit and upskill their workforce...
What’s going wrong with the apprenticeship levy?
More than a year after the apprenticeship levy came into effect, most agree that it is not going according to...
