Apprenticeships

Functional skills are not fit for the purpose of qualifying apprentices

Functional skills are an off-putting part of the apprentice experience and the whole curriculum needs a complete rethink to...

JL Dutaut
Sue Pittock
Apprenticeships

Improving apprenticeship achievement rates starts with showing how much we value them

New research from AELP with City & Guilds makes it clear that the apprenticeships are not perceived as valuable...

JL Dutaut
Jane Hickie
Apprenticeships, Spring budget

Ex-DfE ministers call for ‘apprenticeship levy 2.0’

Familiar faces Greening and Milton, who were education ministers when the apprenticeship levy launched in 2017, have joined calls...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Degree apprenticeships

Only current degree apprenticeship providers will get slice of £8m expansion fund

Allocations for 102 unis and colleges have been revealed today

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Second chance for firms that failed to join flexi-job apprenticeship register

DfE confirms new sustainabilit6y assessment will be used to re-assess failed bids in last application window

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Ofsted
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Politics

Double tax on employers to boost training, says former education minister

Lord Jo Johnson said a reformed apprenticeships and skills levy was "the only game in town" to increase spending...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

How ITPs can ensure more SMEs benefit from levy transfer

More upheaval is not necessary if ITPs use their unique place and the capacity they've built to leverage more...

JL Dutaut
Jon Graham
Apprenticeships

DfE ‘developing’ teaching apprenticeship for non-graduates

Ministers also 'reviewing' their existing postgraduate route 'with a view to making it more effective'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker