Driving collaboration between industry and education to help boost economic recovery in 2021
By Sue Parr, Director of Apprenticeships and Part-time Programmes – WMG, University of Warwick In 2018 the unemployment rate for graduates that were six months out of university was 5.1%, the lowest in the last 40 years. This year, of course, has changed that significantly, although graduates with the right skills are still in demand particularly […]
Apprentices will be top source of talent, say 37% of leaders
A third of businesses view apprentices as the most valuable source of emerging talent, according to a new poll of over 2,000 senior HR professionals. The data comes following the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in April last year – an initiative designed to boost the number of young people entering vocational training. The survey […]
Diversity-driven apprenticeship scheme launched by news publisher…
ESI Media’s newspaper brands, London Evening Standard and the Independent, has joined forces to introduce a diversity-driven apprenticeship scheme for candidates to promote greater workplace variance in newsrooms. Eligible to candidates with five GCSEs at grades A-C – with a minimum of grade C in Maths and English – all apprentices will be paid the […]