by Paul Mitchell | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised
Employers are increasingly willing to recruit candidates based on soft skills, but 40 per cent of young people still plan to attend university to secure a job, separate pieces of research have revealed. Click here for more. Meanwhile the DfE report record numbers of...
by Paul Mitchell | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised
New research on inequalities, carried out for the Institute for Fiscal Studies Deaton Review of Inequalities and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds that disadvantaged pupils start school behind their better-off peers, and the education system is not succeeding...
by Paul Mitchell | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised
Nearly three quarters of employers are less interested in university degrees than a decade ago, according to new research from the global hiring platform, Indeed. Click here for more.
by Paul Mitchell | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised
The policy brief report, The end of free movement and the low-wage labour force in the UK, conducted by ReWAGE and the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, found that while Brexit exacerbated the labour market problems in the UK, it was “by no means the only...
by Paul Mitchell | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised
Misconceptions around apprenticeships are still influencing the decisions of young people in their career paths, according to new research from accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO. Click here for more.
by Paul Mitchell | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised
This article looks at how providing employees the opportunity to study while they work has enormous benefits for employers and staff alike.
by Paul Mitchell | Aug 18, 2022 | Uncategorised
Latest from the ESFA including: 1. Action: preparing for R14 – reviewing FRM reports; 2. Information: Skills Bootcamps funding guidance; 3. Information: IfATE’s revisions status report for August 2022; 4. Information: independent training providers (ITP) financial...
by Vanessa Potter | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorised
The latest monthly transparency data on apprenticeships and traineeships contains: data on apprenticeship starts, reported to date, covering the first 10 months of the 2021 to 2022 academic year. apprenticeship service statistics, including commitments and...
by Vanessa Potter | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorised
The Government has released the prototype dashboard which shows a subset of employment and skills statistics at Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) level, including: employment rates and employment distribution by occupation (source: ONS Annual Population Survey)....
by Vanessa Potter | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorised
The ESFA has published new guidance on how employers and training providers should meet the off-the-job training requirements for an apprenticeship. Find out more.
