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24 April 2026

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Cheap means nasty for apprenticeship units, say providers

…nisters have had to find savings, including by defunding level 7 apprenticeships for people aged over 21 and axing a range of popular management …

Billy Camden

2h | Apprenticeships
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Vocational reform will only work if people trust it

…upport progression to higher study, higher technical training or apprenticeships. To support this, our regulations must ensure V Level results pr…

Catherine Large

2h | Skills reform
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Benefit losses force teens to ditch apprenticeships

Disadvantaged young people are quitting apprenticeships due to welfare rules that cost poorer families hundreds of pound…

Anviksha Patel

10h | Apprenticeships
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Sponsored academy students make ‘less ambitious’ post-16 choices

…increased by four percentage points in 2020, while those who did apprenticeships or studied level 2 or below qualifications fell by 1.4 and 2.5 p…

Esmé Kenney

1d | Colleges
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Apprenticeship reform is squeezing the very SMEs it needs most

…inal category. They operate on tight margins and rely heavily on apprenticeships to bring in new talent. Under the proposed changes, employer con…

Simon Ashworth

2h | Apprenticeships
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NEET rise raises the stakes for qualification reform

…te clearer progression towards level 3 or directly into work and apprenticeships. Yet these must remain flexible for learners requiring modular p…

Julie Hyde

2h | Skills reform
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Revealed: Funding rates and delivery hours for apprenticeship units

Starts on the new short courses can begin from April 28

Billy Camden

2d | Apprenticeships
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Engineering’s entry point is disappearing

…y more worrying one that in the same period, level 2 engineering apprenticeships starts fell by over 50 per cent. The High Value Manufacturing Ca…

Dr Benjamin Silverstone

7d | Apprenticeships
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We don’t need new apprenticeship metrics, we need to use the ones we have

…arket where businesses often become more selective. In response, apprenticeships are increasingly treated as long-term workforce investments; emp…

Harry Hobbs

7d | Apprenticeships
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Healthcare provider stops new starts amid Ofsted ‘urgent improvement’ verdict

…thinking their strategy – including whether to continue offering apprenticeships in the sector at all. Despite this, safeguarding arrangem…

Billy Camden

2w | Apprenticeships