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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 […]

Retail apprenticeships provider ‘disappointed’ after Ofsted grade 4

Inspectors critiqued Northern Training Academy’s ‘poor’ training to big-name retailers

DfE to appoint ‘expert’ apprenticeship training providers

Stringent criteria will eliminate many of the largest from applying

Private equity and training: a complicated relationship explained

The last ten years has seen a gold rush of global private equity (PE) companies seeking to make the most of the opportunities presented by the apprenticeship levy by pouring their money into England’s independent training providers. But PE owners are being hit by a double whammy of lower profit margins in the apprenticeships training […]

Remit Training gets first Ofsted ‘outstanding’

The feat is a ‘testament to the exemplary teamwork seen among our apprentices, clients and colleagues’, says CEO Sue Pittock

Management apprenticeship provider loses momentum with Ofsted ‘inadequate’

We Are Momentum will launch ‘internal review’ off the back of grade 4 rating