Angela Eagle, business secretary for the Labour party, has used its annual general conference to hit out at the Conservative’s, claiming that David Cameron and co are ‘dumbing down apprenticeships.’
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has released an impact assessment document which summarises the effects of protecting the term ‘apprenticeship’ on UK businesses.
The Scottish government is giving local councils nearly £6m in order to fund more job opportunities for young people, as it looks to cut youth unemployment levels by 40 per cent by 2021.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has set new guidelines which aim to increase the amount of apprenticeships in the public sector and to make apprentice a protected term.
The government has released a new assessment plan to support paraplanner apprenticeships, developed in conjunction with the likes of Simply BIZ, Openwork Ltd and Pearson Jones. The new standards will help employers develop apprentices into fully trained paraplanners.
Richard Harrington, apprenticeship adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, has stepped down from his role in order to resettle Syrian refugees in the UK.
Sajid Javid, the government’s business secretary, has applauded automotive firm Jaguar Land Rover for its efforts in the apprenticeship sector, after he met with 600 newly employed graduates and trainees that join the company as higher apprentices.
The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) has proposed a host of changes to apprenticeship funding in response to the governments appeal for input as part of its national spending review.
Speaking inside one of the UK’s newly developed ‘free schools’, David Cameron discusses the importance of building more free centres of education around the country to ensure that children remain on the path to achieving a successful career.
We caught up with Mike Thompson, director of early careers at Barclays, where he heads up the bank’s apprenticeship programme. On the agenda was the apprenticeship levy, whether David Cameron is improving the apprenticeship sector, opportunities for the disabled and how Barclays is helping the over-24s.
