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Rotheram: the ‘apprentice’ mayor

Liverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram is donning a hi-vis vest, trowel in hand, and reminiscing to local college students about the hard graft of his first job as a bricklayer and how he’d be incapable of it today. His attempts at bricklaying in front of young learners (and cameras) at the City of […]

UCAS launches new apprenticeship service

University admissions body officially adds apprenticeship options to its site

Care recruiter turned training provider ‘unable to verify’ apprentices have jobs

Ofsted hits firm with ‘inadequate’ after failing to evidence funding claims

Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards honour diverse talent and inclusive employers

Award winners praised for demonstrating ‘remarkable dedication and resilience’

Workers face £40k financial penalty if they switch careers, research warns

Experts call for lifelong learning entitlement to be expanded to help ease financial burden

Portable flexi-jobs apprenticeship pilot flops

Providers hit less than 1% of their target with just 2 months to go

IFS calls for uniform subsidy rate for apprenticeship levy

Economists also warn that Labour’s plan to expand the levy risks ‘significant deadweight costs’

How apprenticeships can provide effective employee retention

People want to be the best that they can be, and an apprenticeship gives them a structure to do that within their career development.

Darren Hankey, Hartlepool College

Darren Hankey is keen for his students to grasp the tantalising opportunities to acquire net zero skills that are emerging in his region as a way of pulling themselves out of poverty. In the college’s 175-year history, Hartlepool has gone from being an industrial powerhouse to one of England’s most deprived towns. Students’ behavioural problems […]