Apprenticeships
Everyone who can benefit should be able to access a high-quality apprenticeship and world-class technical education. Yet access to apprenticeships is unequal and the quality of apprenticeships and technical education variable. We will focus on the quality of and access to apprenticeships, and how technical education can work for adults as well as young people.Bridging the Gap: next steps for the apprenticeship levy
Apprenticeships are a great way to combine learning with earning, helping people build their careers and enabling employers to meet their skills needs. In 2017, the government introduced the apprenticeship levy in an effort to boost employer...Read more »
Best practice in designing and delivering pre-apprenticeship programmes
Learning and Work Institute is delighted to be working in collaboration with J.P.Morgan to identify ways in which organisations can design and deliver pre-apprenticeship programmes, that provide a pathway to apprenticeships for young people, across Europe....Read more »
Resources to support care leavers into apprenticeships
Care leavers face barriers in accessing suitable education and employment opportunities. These challenges can be financial, but also be lack of support and guidance in how to navigate through the transition from education to employment. The...Read more »
LEP Support Programme: Apprenticeship Growth
ESFA are currently funding Learning and Work Institute to deliver a programme of support for LEPs to support apprenticeship growth. The programme, which is focussed around National Apprenticeships Week, includes: Support to plan and deliver your...Read more »
Supporting Young Apprentices: guidance for employers
Young apprentices can be some of the most dedicated workers, bringing fresh perspectives and new skill sets into the workforce. They provide opportunities for employers to ‘grow their own’ and develop a crucial talent pipeline for...Read more »
Employer engagement and capacity to support T Level industry placements
IFF Research and Learning and Work Institute were commissioned by the Department for Education to better understand employers’ capacity and likelihood to offer T Level industry placements. It also aimed to establish any challenges and barriers that employers may...Read more »
English, Maths and Digital in Traineeships and Apprenticeships
Produced for the Department of Education, these case studies illustrate some of the features of effective practice in English, maths and digital basic skills learning in apprenticeships and traineeship settings.
All Change: Where next for apprenticeships?
An essay collection with leading experts setting out ways to improve the quality of apprenticeships and ensure fair access to training. The Government’s apprenticeship reforms are the biggest in a generation and include the Apprenticeship Levy,...Read more »
Exploring funding for apprentices with additional needs
Research into the effectiveness of funding to support apprentices with learning difficulties, disabilities or disadvantage. Findings from interviews with apprenticeship providers, employers and third party organisations. This report identifies areas to consider in the future development of...Read more »
Understanding the under-representation of women in engineering apprenticeships
Women are under-represented in many STEM areas, but within the engineering sector the gender imbalance is particularly stark. Just 9% of the current engineering workforce is female, contributing to wider gender pay inequalities and posing significant...Read more »
22 February 2018Exploring models for part-time and flexible apprenticeships
Apprenticeships are a key government policy to support transition to the labour market, social mobility, economic growth and improved productivity. While evidence shows that the benefits to apprentices, to businesses and to our wider economy and...Read more »
Growing traineeship programmes
This resource has been written for traineeship providers who want to grow their traineeship programmes, and for providers who do not yet offer traineeships but who hope to do so in the future.
20 November 2017Apprentice Pay – Sticking to the Rules
This report presents the findings from our research and makes recommendations for improving employer awareness of and compliance with the National Minimum Wage for apprentices.
Best practice in designing and delivering Public Sector apprenticeship programmes case studies
Our case studies include examples of good practice and different approaches taken by a range of public sector organisations. In a hurry? Read the 2-page summaries below of the approaches being taken by public sector organisations....Read more »
15 March 2017Three Million Apprenticeships – Building ladders of opportunity
Apprenticeships are a great way to combine learning and earning and meet employers’ skills needs. That is why they have a long history dating back several centuries, though today’s apprenticeships have a wider focus including on...Read more »
Apprenticeship Funding Reforms
Response to Department for Education survey on Apprenticeship funding proposals - September 2016
Government’s Draft Strategic Guidance to the Institute for Apprenticeships
Submission to Department for Education - January 2017
25 January 2017Apprentice Charter – Higher Quality, Better Outcomes
Our Apprentice Charter sets out what the government can do to reach the target of 3 million apprentices by 2020.
The Apprentices’ Journey
A report analysing the experiences of the 81 learners who were nominated for the 2011 Adult Apprentice of the Year Award, which was sponsored by Pearson for Adult Learners' Week.
The Adult Apprentice
The stories featured in this publication are based on in-depth interviews with ten adult apprentices (aged 19+) nominated in the Apprentice of the Year category of the 2012 Adult Learners' Week awards.
31 October 2016Three Million Careers: Making the Apprenticeship Levy Work
The Government has a target of three million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020, and is introducing an Apprenticeship Levy on the payroll of large employers to fund this increase and to encourage greater employer engagement...Read more »
1 September 2015Apprentice Charter – High Quality, Better Outcomes
The government wants to see another 3 million apprentices by 2020, and that’s a vision that we can all buy in to. But to make that happen we need to make sure apprenticeships are a high...Read more »