As part of a series of articles on some of the many problems - and highlights - of the skills and training system in the UK, we explore the serious flaws in a key plank of government skills policy.
We have to hope that history will look back at the Apprenticeship Levy as the lowest point in the sorry story of skills training in England. Designed to reverse the decline in apprenticeships that began with de-industrialisation in the 1970s and 80s, it has instead accelerated their decline. All good intentions have been broken on…
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