The Cost-of-Living Crisis and Employer Demand for Level 2-7 Apprenticeships
The past twelve months have seen an encouraging recovery for apprenticeships after the terrible impact that the pandemic’s lockdowns had on new starts on the…
The past twelve months have seen an encouraging recovery for apprenticeships after the terrible impact that the pandemic’s lockdowns had on new starts on the…
Statisticians count employment statuses in a short sequence. If you do one hour or more of paid work, you are ‘in employment’. If you’re not…
Nearly all of the measures in the Growth Plan published on Friday 23rd September have now been reversed by Jeremy Hunt, the new Chancellor. A…
The last few years have seen some interesting shifts in what we could call “non-traditional” routes to starting a full-time undergraduate degree, especially in terms…
The UK Government has made raising the UK’s growth rate the Government’s central economic mission and has emphasised the importance of boosting productivity to achieving…
University tuition fees have been debated endlessly across the UK since at least the Dearing Report over a quarter of a century ago. There is…
The pandemic posed a huge challenge for all of us. While there might have been a general enthusiasm about the return to ‘normality’, the cost-of-living…
According to the latest data , 16-18 year-olds form 23.7% of the apprentice population. As Figure 1 illustrates, over time, their proportion had declined substantially…
Financial support for 16-19 year-olds was already creaking before the cost-of-living crisis hit, but the spike in demand for support from sixth form college students…
Households across the UK are facing huge cost-of-living pressures, with inflation close to a 40-year high and real wages falling fast. While significant support from…
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