Businesses across the UK are living through a digital revolution. Technology, revenue streams and entire business models are being ripped up and reinvented.Getting the right skills at the right price is a crucial task.

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The Skills Funding Agency has transferred key content from the former apprenticeships website to GOV.UK. This activity is in line with the government digital strategy and as part of the Agency’s ongoing drive to improve services for users.

Apprentices seeking a career in painting and decorating will now benefit from new industry-standard workshops that have been built at Cambridge Regional College.

The apprentices, aged between 16-20, will work in a range of areas providing support to staff and services across the county as well as gaining crucial skills for a career in IT.

The MEN and Manchester College have teamed up to offer one young person the chance to become an apprentice marketing assistant at Britain’s biggest regional news title.

A quarter of apprentices aged 16-18 and a fifth of 19-20 year olds are currently being underpaid, with 120,000 people being paid less than the minimum wage appropriate to their age, according to two new reports released today.