The National Audit Office (NAO) report on 'Delivering value through the apprenticeships programme' was released today. The report examines whether the Department for Education can demonstrate that the increasingly employer-led apprenticeships programme is achieving value for money. The Department for Education needs to chart and follow a course from having a lot of apprenticeships to [...]

Fifty-five Labour MPs have written a letter to the Apprenticeships and Skills Minister to rethink inner-city apprenticeship funding cuts. Former minister for higher education and MP for Tottenham, David Lammy, said the cuts will be "devastating for apprentices in deprived areas." The funding changes will take effect from May 2017 and will see apprenticeship funding for [...]