AELP raise concerns over ESFA non-levy apprenticeship allocations
AELP letter to Education Secretary Justine Greening MP (27 April 2017) Dear Secretary of State, Over the last 48 hours, the ESFA’s leadership has…
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The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) is a national membership body, proudly representing its many member organisations that deliver training and vocational learning.
3 million Apprenticeships target under threat after massive government funding cuts
Apprenticeship training providers have reacted with unprecedented dismay to government cuts to the funding that helps support smaller businesses offering apprenticeships. Areas of the country…
More flexibility needed under ‘off the job’ apprenticeship training rules to meet needs of employers and apprentices
The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has said that recent funding rule changes for off-the-job training in apprenticeships don’t go far enough in…
MPs’ sobering review of the apprenticeship reforms
As the levy collection begins, a cross-party committee of MPs have just done a great job in reviewing the government’s apprenticeship reforms and ministers would…
AELP strengthens its capacity with two senior appointments
The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has announced a major strengthening of its senior management team with two new appointments. Jane Hickie is…
Flexible approaches are key to the Brexit response
Let’s tip our hat to the government for saying in the Industrial Strategy green paper that there will be flexibility for the new Institutes of…
Enabling Traineeships to Grow
The Department for Education has published this week some outcome data for the first full year (2013-14) of the Traineeship programme. 71% of young people…
MPs’ forensic questioning valuable for Apprenticeship reform process
Senior DfE officials responsible for apprenticeships faced questions from MPs at the Public Accounts Committee in the House of Commons last week and were presented…
NAO right to be concerned about implementation of apprenticeship reforms
As Parliament returns, opposition MPs have been quick to jump on concerns about the government’s latest set of funding proposals for apprenticeships. Unless the government…
We’re not there yet on the apprenticeship reforms
We’ve had a few days to absorb the details of the government’s latest apprenticeship levy announcements and already my inbox is full of comments from…