People, apprenticeships and skills key to business expansion

Posted on 14 Mar 2016 by Callum Bentley

New research released to mark the start of National Apprenticeship Week has found businesses place apprentices at the heart of their plans to rise to the top, and rank hiring the right staff as the most important factor in helping them grow.

Apprenticeships are at the heart of the Government’s drive to equip people with the skills that employers need to grow and compete and today’s research shows that eight in ten managers believe apprentices are vital to their organisation’s expansion plans. The research also showed that managers hiring apprentices were five times more likely to believe…

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