BEIS in the Growth Plan

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) will have a key role to play in delivering the government’s Growth Plan. Click here for an explanation of this and here for the Treasury’s Growth Plan Implementation document and here for...

What Happened to Youth Apprenticeships?

Half a century ago around one third of teenage boys entered apprenticeships on leaving school, mostly into programmes of 3-4 years in manual trades. A sizeable – though much smaller – proportion of girls also entered apprenticeships in fields like hairdressing. These...

Exams Head Back to Normality in 2023

GCSE, AS, and A level exams in England will largely return to pre-pandemic arrangements next summer as young people continue to recover from the pandemic. In line with the plans set out last September, Ofqual has confirmed a return to pre-pandemic grading in...

Number of Job Adverts Drops to Levels Last Seen in April

The number of job postings in the UK has fallen to the lowest level recorded since spring this year as recruitment shows signs of slowing down. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and Lightcast’s latest Labour Market Tracker revealed that, in the week...