The amount of people embarking on an apprenticeship has dropped by a worrying 61% year-on-year since the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy, according to new government data.
The Apprenticeship Levy requires all businesses with a wage-bill in excess of £3m to pay 0.5% of that bill towards funding the creation of three-million new apprenticeships. Between May and July 2017, apprenticeship starts decreased from 113,000 to 43,600 over the same period in 2016, statistics published by government this week…
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