Leverage the levy: your guide to accessing apprenticeships' funding
Anthony Bromirski, chief operating officer at Busy Bees Education and Training, is encouraging...
Apprenticeships
The latest news and features on apprenticeships, including the sector's first-ever Early years Educator apprenticeship standard, at Level 3.
The early years sector and leadership apprenticeships
The apprentice levy can now support early years leaders with an enriched Level 5 and Level 7...
Training Today: Level 3 - Ts and 3s
Early years Level 3 and T-Level training was already in flux. How has Covid affected their delivery,...
Call for large businesses to transfer unspent apprenticeship levy to the early years sector
Employers with an annual salary bill of more than £3m are being called on to transfer any unspent...
New apprenticeship standard approved at Level 5
A new level 5 apprenticeship standard has been approved for the early years sector – but only meets...
Nursery Management: Qualifications Round-Up - Still on course
With the launch of the new T-Level qualification in September and new apprenticeship standards under...
Coronavirus: Nurseries and schools pose low risk of infection to children
Children are more likely to catch Coronavirus at home than in childcare settings or school, finds...
Early years employers urged to hire apprentices
Nursery groups have welcomed the Government’s drive to encourage employers to take on apprentices by...
Coronavirus: training providers facing huge drops in apprentice numbers
Training providers are facing huge drops in apprentice numbers as settings start to close en masse...
Parents not convinced of value of apprenticeships, research suggests
Findings from a survey of 1,000 Mumsnet users with children aged 13-18 reveal that more than 60 per...
Level 5 standard in dispute
A tug of war is taking place over whether the Level 5 apprenticeship standard should contain a...
Call for Level 5 to include foundation degree
A trailblazer group which is pushing to get a foundation degree included in a Level 5 apprenticeship...
Nursery Management: Apprenticeships - Set standards
Hannah Crown and Katy Morton speak to the chair of the education and childcare route panel, Mary...
Apprenticeships panel appoints Eunice Lumsden following criticism over lack of sector experience
A panel which approves apprenticeship standards for the childcare sector has appointed a leading...
Training Today: Apprenticeships and T-Levels roundup - All happening
Since the end of the Level 3 apprenticeship standard impasse, more apprenticeships are in...
New Level 2 trailblazer group given go-ahead
A new trailblazer group has been set up to work on an apprenticeship standard at level 2.
Guide to: Level 3 apprenticeship standard
The sector’s first-ever Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, at Level 3, has finally...
Training - The new Level 3 apprenticeship
After five years of delays, the new Level 3 early years apprenticeship standard is finally here. So...
Long-awaited Level 3 early years appenticeship standard approved
The much anticipated Level 3 early years apprenticeship standard has been approved for delivery.
Apprenticeship providers rail against Level 3 impasse
Training providers say they have lost faith in the Government to deliver the Level 3 apprenticeship...
Busy Bees seeks 300 childcare apprentices
Busy Bees’ training provider is launching 300 childcare apprenticeships for National Apprenticeship...
Training: Exclusive - The end of an era for EYE?
T-levels – the Level 3 programmes of study that will come in from 2020 – look set to replace the...
Training - New apprenticeship standards
The early years trailblazer group is now in its third incarnation, and is busy devising...
Delay continues over Level 3 standard while new apprenticeship group is set up
A new trailblazer group has been set up to continue working on the early years apprenticeship...
Apprenticeships latest: IfA claims it 'has worked collaboratively'
The Institute for Apprenticeships has responded to criticism that it is not listening to employers...
Level 3 early years apprenticeship could receive £8,000 funding
The Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard has now been approved, Nursery World can...
Apprentice anguish
With the number of young people starting apprenticeships down by 40 per cent, it's a challenging...
Training Talk - Employing an early years apprentice
An online course helped manager Carol Billingham know what to expect when employing apprentices. By...
Childcare apprenticeships panel has just one PVI representative
Members of the expert panel which will be vetting new early years apprenticeships have been...
New inquiry into the quality of apprenticeships
An inquiry into the quality of apprenticeships and skills training has been launched by the...
EXCLUSIVE: Level 3 apprenticeships standard ready to go in February
Early years apprenticeships have been a much-needed boost as the new Level 3 standard has now been...
Spending watchdog to investigate Learndirect and DfE
The National Audit Office has officially launched an investigation into Learndirect and the DfE’s...
Schools accused of exploiting apprenticeships for cheap labour
Schools are advertising teaching assistant apprentice jobs at just £3.50 an hour, according to new...
'Inadequate' Learndirect stopped from taking new apprentices
Learndirect, the biggest provider of childcare apprenticeships, has had its Government funding...
Training Today: Skills Plan - Less is more?
The Skills Plan marks a huge reform of vocational education. What is it, and why does it matter for...
Apprenticeships - Making apprenticeships count
What the ‘20 per cent off-the-job training’ rule means exactly, and how it can be delivered, have...
Careers & Training - Under contract
After the launch of the apprenticeship levy last month, Beena Nadeem sets out the dos and don’ts of...
EXCLUSIVE: Trailblazer drafts apprenticeship standard for EYE Level 3
The newly-appointed Early Years Trailblazer group has launched a three-week consultation on the...
British Sign Language wins GCSE equivalent status for early years apprenticeships
British Sign Language (BSL) is to be included as an alternative to GCSE English in early years...
Apprenticeships plan set out
The new Institute for Apprenticeships, which launched this month, will regulate the quality of...
Former chair of trailblazers seeks judicial review
The former chair of the apprenticeship trailblazer group, which was stood down in February, is...
Apprenticeship levy comes into force
The apprenticeship levy comes into force today, at a time of unprecedented uncertainty over ...
New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'
The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a...
EXCLUSIVE: Apprenticeship trailblazers 'bullied' over GCSEs, claim former members
The Government ‘bullied and threatened’ the sector's trailblazer group in a row over GCSEs, two...
Approved apprenticeship training providers list published
A new register of training providers has launched as part of reforms to quality assure...
Apprenticeship levy could lower wages, finds think tank
The new apprenticeship funding system could result in lower wages for employees, a think tank has...
Call to make small schools exempt from apprenticeship levy
The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils in England and Wales, wants small...
Funding reforms ‘will result in fewer EY apprentices’
Sector leaders are urging the Department for Education (DfE) to delay finalising its proposed...
Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine
The pipeline feeding Level 3 childcare staff into the sector is drying up, and we have the data to...
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