Apprenticeships

It’s that time of year again when young people who have worked so hard over the past two years to get to this gateway to their future, experience either elation or total deflation.  No matter how many times people say ‘it really doesn’t matter…you can still succeed in life’ it does not hold back the wave of disappointment that washes over you.

On 1st May 2017, the new Employer-Led Apprenticeship system was introduced. Essentially apprenticeship funding still exists, indeed the government is still aiming for its target of 3 million apprenticeships starting in England between 2015 and 2020, but now employers are ‘in the driving seat’ of the apprenticeship journey for their employees.