Leading employers are recognising how management apprenticeships drive growth
An Anniversary of Apprenticeships. As we celebrate the first anniversary of the new Apprenticeship Levy, it’s timely to use the occasion to celebrate what’s working…
Petra Wilton
Further progression – developing Masters-level degree apprenticeship programmes
Petra Wilton, Director of Strategy and External Affairs, CMI, addressing the Westminster Employment Forum Keynote Seminar: The future for higher and degree apprenticeships – expansion,…
Awareness of degree apprenticeships is still unacceptably low – we need to fix this
In the last fortnight, more than a million GCSE and A-level students have collected their exam results and many will now be moving onto the…
A New Dawn for Further Education?
By revolutionising their funding model, the Apprenticeship Levy could reinvigorate the further education sector Further education colleges have, historically, been prime providers of apprenticeship training,…
Labelling the Apprenticeship Levy as a “tax” is misleading: it’s a skills investment plan
According to Einstein the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. So when applied to the world…
Government gives greenlight to employers to develop a Master’s apprenticeship for senior leaders
Government approval to develop a new Master’s-level degree apprenticeship in leadership and management means organisations will be able to use Apprenticeship Levy funds to invest…
Skills first in an age of uncertainty
Changes to the UK’s education system come at a time when post-Brexit we need a renewed focus on developing home-grown skills. In the past year,…