Businesses should be free to spend their apprenticeship levy funds across the UK’s four nations and on capital investments, ...
Benjamin Gilbert: ‘Whilst bigger businesses have the capacity to devote time and resources to navigating the apprenticeship system, it’s a much bigger challenge for a smaller company’ - John Lawrence ...
Millions in taxpayers’ money is being used to part-fund university courses for top executives earning more than £100,000 a year, an investigation by The Independent has revealed. But what exactly is ...
Ministers vow to work 'intensively with business on the right balance' as they stress that no decisions have been made 'yet' ...
A survey of employers shows strong support for reform of the Apprenticeship Levy, finds the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). A survey included within the REC’s monthly JobsOutlook, ...
Senior industry representatives have urged the government to address issues with its apprenticeship levy, which has been criticised for being needlessly restrictive. An open letter from several ...
The new report also highlights the wider decline in employer investment in training despite a significant rise in skill shortage vacancies, prompting calls for levy reform The number of apprentices ...
Investment in training has dropped by £10.9bn since the apprenticeship levy was introduced in 2017, fresh analysis has shown, with calls growing for Labour to speed up its overhaul of skills ...