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Employers value apprenticeship experience over periods of study for new hires

The research, carried out by Positive Outcomes, a national provider of work-based training and apprenticeships, questioned 100 UK employers over their attitudes towards apprenticeship experience in the run up to the GCSE and A-level results days. As part of the study, employers were asked: ‘Thinking about your own company would you take on somebody who had
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Apprenticeship levy will ‘undermine quality of apprenticeships’

Ben Willmott, head of public policy at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) says the concerns regarding the levy in its current form are widespread across organisations from the private, public and voluntary sectors, and it is irresponsible for the government, particularly in a time of economic uncertainty in the aftermath of the referendum,
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