Are apprenticeships fit for the future? #SkillsWorld with Charlotte Bosworth and Chinara Rustamova
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6 years on since the publication of the Richard Review, which ushered in a new approach to developing and delivering apprenticeships, Tom interviews Chinara Rustamova, Senior Policy Advisor Education and...
show moreApprenticeship starts have plummeted by around 20 per cent since the introduction of the Levy and new Standards. Non-Levy small businesses are struggling to access funding for the apprenticeship slots that they are prepared to offer.
“Providing 20 per cent off the job training is a real challenge for small businesses… We need to sort the looming challenge of the funding issue”, according to Chinara Rustamova, who authored the FSB’s report, ‘Fit for the Future: Making the Apprenticeship System Work for Small Businesses’.
On the challenges faced by end-point assessment organisations (EPAOs), Charlotte Bosworth said: “We need to come together, employers, providers, EPAOs — to come up with a better, more collaborative approach, to delivering high-quality apprenticeships."
Topics covered include:
~The barriers faced by small firms taking on apprentices
~The collapse of 16-24 year old apprentices and what can be done about it
~Controversy about Level 2 business administration apprenticeships no longer being available
~Whether it is immoral to allow senior managers to access the Apprenticeship Levy to pay for Management degrees
~The future of the Levy
~What is required to make a success of the end-point assessment model
~Views from small businesses about the government’s new T-Level programme and awareness levels
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