“The acute shortage of levy funding for SME employers and the disastrous fall in intermediate level apprenticeships have to be addressed quickly and we urge the Secretary of State to push the case for apprenticeships and other key skill programmes hard with the Treasury because the importance of a homegrown well-skilled workforce cannot be exaggerated as we prepare for Brexit.” Mark Dawe, AELP.
Rt Hon Gavin Williamson CBE MP, was appointed Secretary of State for Education in Boris Johnson’s first evening in office as Prime Minister. Read the sector response here.