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    Apprenticeship levy

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    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Up to £2bn of England’s apprenticeship levy used on management training

      Executives are benefiting from funds at the expense of younger recruits, finds CIPD research

    • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
      Education
      Apprenticeships in England deliver lowest quality of further education

      Ofsted data show one-third of apprenticeships need improvement or are inadequate

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      Employers in England lose more than £3.3bn in unspent apprenticeship levy funds

      Clawback exposes flaws in scheme aimed at boosting spending on workplace training

    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      Apprenticeship levy opposed by most UK employers, survey finds

      Pressure builds to reform workplace training scheme as it reaches its fifth anniversary

    • Sunday, 17 October, 2021
      Executive MBA
      What cutting contentious funding means for the executive MBA

      Using the UK apprenticeship levy for EMBAs split opinion but ending it has consequences

    • Monday, 10 May, 2021
      UK employers lose £2bn in unspent apprenticeship levy funds

      Business group says figure exposes weaknesses in government’s flagship training policy

    • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
      Measures to boost skills training disappoint business groups

      Plans under fire for being ‘insufficient’ considering wider personnel shortages facing industry

    • Thursday, 30 July, 2020
      UK employment
      Apprenticeship starts in England drop 60 per cent in a month

      Lockdown undermines Boris Johnson’s promise of workplace training for all young people

    • Tuesday, 19 May, 2020
      UK employment
      Apprentices hit hard by lockdown as businesses axe learning

      More than 60% of employers in England forced to abandon on-the-job schemes, study finds

    • Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
      Business school heads vow to fight axing of MBA apprenticeship

      Deans come out against government plan to cut senior executive courses from workplace training scheme

    • Wednesday, 15 April, 2020
      UK set to pull plug on MBA apprenticeships

      Decision follows scrutiny of senior executives’ use of workplace training scheme  

    • Wednesday, 1 April, 2020
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Apprenticeship crisis looms in England over coronavirus payments

      Department for Education refuses to follow guidelines to pay private training providers

    • Thursday, 12 March, 2020
      Apprenticeship levy leaves UK’s small employers in the cold

      Funding change means big businesses expand their training schemes at expense of SMEs

    • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
      Funding for management apprenticeships to be reviewed

      Minister calls for scrutiny of senior executives using training levy to gain MBAs

    • Thursday, 6 February, 2020
      Union claims job agencies exploiting apprenticeship levy rules

      Unite says groups are making workers pay contributions, then using funds for own benefit

    • Thursday, 30 January, 2020
      England suffers further drop in apprenticeship starts

      Expensive degree level programmes take up bulk of money raised by training levy

    • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
      Apprenticeships chief urges plugging of funds gap

      Jennifer Coupland blames levy for creating divide between small and large employers

    • Thursday, 9 January, 2020
      Apprenticeship fund shortfall hits small businesses

      Levy pot spent faster than expected on large companies and degree level courses

    • Monday, 9 December, 2019
      UK apprenticeship levy’s low take-up highlighted by survey

      Two years after its launch, half of the companies covered by the scheme have yet to spend anything

    • Monday, 7 October, 2019
      Dear JonathanJonathan Black
      Do I complete my apprenticeship or move to a full-time degree?

      Your question for our expert — and readers’ advice

    • Monday, 16 September, 2019
      Funding shortfall prompts warning on apprenticeships

      CBI says ministers should inject £100m into training budget immediately

    • Thursday, 8 August, 2019
      UK employment
      Apprentice funding shortfall sparks fears over training

      Small businesses hit as levy fails to cover the cost of schemes

    • Monday, 22 July, 2019
      UK employment
      Most employers have cut training under apprentice levy, report finds

      CIPD recommends wider definition of what companies can spend funds on

    • Sunday, 14 July, 2019
      UK universities
      ‘Degree apprenticeships’ underused through lack of information

      Perception that free university education is ‘too good to be true’ hits enrolment

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