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Allow employers to appeal for more time to spend their apprenticeship levy cash, CBI urges

Employers should be allowed to appeal for more time to spend their apprenticeship levy funds if the standards they...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Government ‘pushed’ to reveal more about national retraining scheme

The government is being “pushed” by its partners on the national retraining scheme to share more information about the...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Anne Milton launches £22m construction skills fund

The skills minister has launched a new £22 million fund to help tackle construction skills shortages. The 18-month scheme...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Open letter sees government on defensive before apprenticeship figures announced

The government is on the defensive one day before the latest apprenticeship figures appear, expected to show a continued...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Bids to open for share of new construction retraining fund in April

Bidding is to open next month for a share of a new construction retraining fund worth tens of millions...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Summit to launch ‘skills revolution’ with employers

The government will host a special summit at the end of this month to launch a new ‘skills partner’...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Third of employers paying levy in April don’t know it exists yet, according to new report

A third of employers who will have to pay the new apprenticeship levy from April are not even aware...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Scotland to spend less than half their levy funding on apprenticeships

The Scottish government has announced that its use of the apprenticeships levy will be more flexible than in England,...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson