Autumn Budget 2017: ‘Don’t dilute apprenticeship levy spend’
Responding to the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget today, AELP CEO Mark Dawe said: ‘We welcome the new investment in digital skills. To help reverse the…
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AELP welcomes new Commons committee inquiry on apprenticeships and skills
At the Skills Show today, Robert Halfon MP, chair of the Education select committee in the House of Commons, announced a new committee inquiry into…
More flexibility needed in apprenticeship levy reforms to reverse poor start
Training leaders are calling on the government to urgently take forward the skills minister’s own acknowledgement that a more flexible approach is needed if the…
More flexibility needed in apprenticeship levy reforms to reverse poor start
Training leaders are calling on the government to urgently take forward the skills minister’s own acknowledgement that a more flexible approach is needed if the…
Party conferences diary – social mobility or social justice, we want it
As a south London boy but not quite with the ‘grime’ accent to match, I had to mind my h’s during the party conference season.…
Raising the skill level of the UK workforce is essential to continued prosperity of the country
Over the years, report after report has suggested that raising the skill level of the UK workforce is essential to continued prosperity of the country.…
A Guide to Apprenticeships across the devolved nations
The introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy has encouraged a greater focus on skills with employers keen to capitalise on opportunities arising from the new system.…
Apprenticeships as driver of social mobility
The unintended consequences of the Apprenticeship Reforms on the social equality of the young and the most disadvantaged. Time to act before a generation is…
Threat to social mobility posed by government’s own apprenticeship reforms
The government is in serious danger of undermining its own social mobility agenda unless it acts quickly to address significant bias in its apprenticeship reform…
2017 should be the last year for compulsory English & Maths GCSE resits
Training leaders are urging ministers to abandon their procrastination over ending the GCSE resits policy for English and maths and to instead join leading employers…