How FE can Bridge the Finance Skills Gap
The UK is facing a financial skills shortage, a challenge that threatens not only the long-term viability of the finance industry, but the sustainability of…
Flexible Growth and Skills Levy
The Flexible Growth and Skills Levy is a Labour Party policy to replace the Apprenticeship Levy.
The Labour Party announced the Skills and Growth Levy in September 2022 and then confirmed this as a Manifesto pledge for FE and Skills in their Labour Party Election manifesto on the 13th June 2024 to broaden the existing Apprenticeship Levy into a ‘Growth and Skills’ Levy, allowing Levy paying firms to use up to 50% of their levy contributions to fund training through routes other than apprenticeships. Eg to give organisations more flexibility to use their Levy funding pot for skills.
Here are more articles from FE News on the Flexible Growth and Skills Levy:
Investing in Success: How Apprenticeships can Drive a Skills Revolution
National Apprenticeship Week comes at an exciting point this year as there is growing recognition that skills development lies at the heart of the UK’s…
New HEPI Policy Note Calls for Unified Lifelong Learning Strategy to Enhance Workforce Skills in the UK
Today, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Instructure have published a new Policy Note: Aligning the Lifelong Learning Entitlement and the Growth and Skills…
Can ‘Get Britain Working’ White Paper Fix Employment Crisis? | Sector Reaction
Unveiling the biggest reforms to employment support for a generation, Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall has today (26 November) published the Get Britain Working…
Government needs to Provide Greater Direction to the Skills System
The Industry and Regulators Committee of the House of Lords has been taking evidence on the future skills that the country will need for growth…
Collaboration is the key
There’s a lot of talk, understandably, around the introduction of the latest arms-length skills body, Skills England. Back in November the CBI called in its…
A new government brings about an opportunity to get the skills system right
A new government brings about an opportunity to get the skills system right Two months into the formation of an incoming government, there are three…
What is the Growth & Skills Levy Vacuum? | FE Soundbite Edition 758
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 758, August 10th, 2024: What is the Growth & Skills Levy Vacuum? This is the weekly e-newsletter and e-journal by…
AELP warns Growth and Skills Levy ‘vacuum’ risks employers reducing training investment
The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has today warned that a lack of detail in government plans to introduce their new Growth and…
The New Government’s Growth and Skills Levy – What Should It Look Like?
The Institute of Directors (IoD) Education Group recently hosted a webinar to discuss the new Labour government’s skills policy, including their new plans for the…
