The proportion of apprentices who successfully completed their training and assessment grew marginally to 54.3 per cent last year, new figures reveal. Overall apprenticeship achievement rates on the new-style standards rose by 2.9 percentage points in 2022/23, up from 51.4 per cent the year before. It leaves the sector 13 percentage points off of the government’s 67 per cent achievement rate target that it hopes to achieve by then end of 2024/25. If overall achievement rates continue to rise by 2.9 percentage points a year, the target would not be reached until 2027/28. In 2021/22 the overall retention rate on standards sat at 52.8 per cent, which grew by 3.1 percentage points to 55.9 per cent in 2022/23. It means that just less than half, 44 per cent, of all apprentices on standards dropped out before completing their end-point assessment last year. Click here for more.
