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Revealed: apprenticeship levy operating model

> CBI pleased government now engaging with employers but say guidance ‘still raises more questions than it answers’ > System won’t be fully operational until 2020, with delay described by sector leaders as ‘pragmatic’ and ‘reducing risk’ > Mandatory cash fees for over 98 per cent of employers to proceed, leaving sector leaders fearful ‘we […]

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Use it or lose it : Employers will have 18 months to spend apprenticeship levy payments

The government has today announced the employer time limit on using their levy funds, due for introduction in April 2017. The news came in an updated guide to the apprenticeship levy and “how it will work” web page, published this afternoon. An apprenticeship levy operating guide for employers, to be published in April, had been promised in last month’s budget. The […]

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Left to sink or swim 

Mick Fletcher reflects on the findings of the House of Lords Social Mobility Committee’s report on improving the transition from school to work. If I have one big criticism of the important new report from the House of Lords Social Mobility Committee it is that the title ‘Overlooked and left behind’ implies neglect of those […]

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No easy answers for volunteers in apprenticeship levy, Boles says

Skills Minister Nick Boles (pictured) has accepted there are no immediate solutions to “difficulties” that the apprenticeship levy will pose for charities. Charity Finance Group (CFG) representatives warned Mr Boles during a recent meeting the levy would incentivise charities to employ apprentices in place of volunteers, which risked “perversely reducing productivity”, according to CFG minutes. […]

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CBI warns institute must not just ‘rubber-stamp’ standards

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has criticised the body established to police the reformed apprenticeship system as having a “disappointingly narrow” set of duties and responsibilities. Pippa Morgan (pictured), head of education and skills at the CBI, raised the concerns during a webinar for members on the apprenticeship levy on Wednesday (April 13). She […]

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Championing apprenticeships

Nichola Hay explains how and why she helped launch an innovative network of apprenticeship champions to provide better information and advice about the benefits of the vocational training to jobseekers. Unfilled apprenticeship vacancies have been a problem for the FE sector for a number of years. They have also been a source of personal frustration […]

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First college outstanding Ofsted rating awarded under CIF

A college in Cornwall has become the first to be rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted since the introduction of the Common Inspection Framework (CIF) in September. The education watchdog’s report on Truro and Penwith College (TPC), published today, was full of praise for the college, rating it grade one ‘outstanding’ overall. Ofsted returned the highest possible […]

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Apprenticeship levy funding pot predictions cut by £100m a year

The amount of money the apprenticeship levy is expected to raise has already fallen by £100m for each year up to 2020/21, FE Week can reveal. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicted in November that the levy would raise £2.8bn in 2017/18, £2.9bn in 2018/19 and £3bn in 2019/20. The latest OBR figures (pictured), […]

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More understanding needed for career ambitions, report says

Better understanding is needed of why young people choose oversubscribed career paths, a new report states. The study, ‘Routes into Work … it’s Alright for Some’, published by The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP), Pearson, with research from the Learning and Work Institute, is intended to explain why youth unemployment has remained stubbornly […]

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