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Employers urged to act over ‘unnecessary’ Apprenticeship Levy costs

Thousands of UK businesses are likely to be hit by unnecessary costs simply because they are unprepared for or do not understand the new Apprenticeship Levy, warns a firm of apprenticeship experts. Strategic Development Network (SDN) ...

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  • 10 May
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Apprenticeship Levy – maximising your contribution (events)

Are you one of the 20,000 businesses who are in scope to pay the new Apprenticeship Levy from April 2017? If so, we’re running two free webinars and a detailed workshop to help you understand the levy and make a real return on your ...

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  • 10 May
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Launching and growing Traineeships – 4 questions providers need to work through

Last week, the Skills Funding Agency announced that they are increasing SFA-funded Traineeship allocations by 24% in 2016/17. Although there have been mixed messages with growth cases over the last few months, it’s clear that ...

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  • 30 Mar
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Apprenticeship 2020 Vision: What does the government’s five year plan tell us?

This month, the government published their vision for Apprenticeships over the next five years. The document confirms much of what we already knew about the Apprenticeship reforms, but provides much needed detail and timescales. Here’s ...

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  • 21 Dec
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SDN supporting delivery of new Future Apprenticeships programme

SDN has been commissioned to deliver key resources, workshops and support packages to prepare providers to deliver new Apprenticeship Standards. The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has now launched the new Future ...

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  • 16 Dec
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Government opens up Traineeship delivery to all providers

Skills Minister Nick Bowles has announced that current restrictions on who can deliver Traineeships will be relaxed. As it currently stands, only training providers with an Ofsted grade of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ can directly receive ...

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  • 10 Dec
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Apprenticeship Assessment: what training providers need to know

As it stands, all Apprenticeship delivery will be based on new Standards and Assessment Plans by 2017. Changes to assessment are significant and will impact on delivery planning – starting now – so it’s important that providers start ...

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  • 03 Dec
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Details of new Apprenticeship Levy published

Further details of the much anticipated Apprenticeship Levy have now been published by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The document provided a summary of the responses received to the Levy consultation ...

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  • 26 Nov
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Early FE budget announcements not as feared

After months of anxious waiting and the Skills Minister’s warning at the AoC Conference last week that FE would not be “insulated from further cuts”, early budget announcements made yesterday were not as severe as many had feared. ...

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  • 26 Nov
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Driving up quality in Service Sector Apprenticeships – what’s the answer?

If you’re like me, my Twitter feed, LinkedIn group and inbox has been dominated by one subject over the last few weeks… Ofsted. Ofsted’s review of Apprenticeships has certainly ruffled some feathers. As with many reviews of this kind, ...

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  • 23 Nov
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