Training delivery
Three million apprenticeship starts target will be missed
The government will miss its target of getting three million apprenticeship starts by 2020, the education secretary has conceded.
Employees struggle to find L&D opportunities effective, report finds
Only 13% of employees believe the learning opportunities they’ve been given over the past year have been very effective.
Staffline shares slump following six-year minimum wage underpayment
Staffline, one of the biggest recruitment and training agencies in the UK, has seen its shares tumble after PwC delayed...
Integrate learning into jobs, say L&D experts
Learning will need to be better integrated into employees' daily tasks, especially in busy environments: a key message from the Festival of Work
Mentoring gap opens up between demand and provision
Only 13% workers in the UK have a mentor despite employees highly valuing mentoring opportunities.
Sephora and racial profiling: what can a single training day achieve?
The beauty retailer closed its US stores to deliver diversity training after an incident of racial profiling.
MPs urge radical improvements in apprenticeships
MPs have strongly criticised the government’s apprenticeship programme, in particular its focus on higher level placements and failure to meet the needs of smaller employers.
Workplace training mainly benefits the better qualified
Employees with higher levels of education, women, younger employees and people with mid-range skills are the chief beneficiaries of training at work, a new ONS study has shown.
Few businesses find tech investment improves learning outcomes
The growing use of AI in learning and development has not resulted in significant improvements in people's productivity and work quality according to new research.
UK must act to boost skills or face ‘perfect storm’ of decline
Cuts in public funding for adult skills and falling employer investment has led to the UK's skills base lagging behind that of comparable countries.
‘Use the apprenticeship levy to improve management’ – Cary Cooper
Improving the UK’s poor management performance is the definitive way to fix the economy, says organisational psychologist Professor Sir Cary...
Apprenticeships should be opened up to single parents
Most single parents are being locked out of apprenticeships because of a lack of part-time opportunities and the difficulty of supporting children with such low pay.
Don’t let levy criticism eclipse apprenticeship opportunities
It’s been a bad news week for apprenticeships. But Dr Susan Laing, Dean of Teesside University Business School, argues that...
Employers access a tenth of apprenticeship levy funds
The government is unlikely to reach its target of 3 million new apprenticeships by 2020 and there are “concerns about...
£400m apprenticeship levy underspend revealed
Only £268m was spent by levy-paying employers on apprentices in the programme's first year of operation, 2017-18. This equated to just 13% of the Treasury's £2.01bn apprenticeships budget and contributed to a £400m underspend.
