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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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