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As part of a push to raise productivity and address skills shortages, ministers have set ambitious targets to increase apprenticeship numbers and are introducing a levy on larger employers from next April to help fund the new placements.
Ministers have made a commitment to increase apprenticeship opportunities for young people as part of a five-year programme.
In addition, companies from various sectors have made commitments to increase apprenticeship and work readiness programs in the U.S. and have called on other companies to follow suit.
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Despite respondents welcoming the Government's ambition to increase apprenticeships to three million, they expressed fears of how other policies would make this impossible to achieve.
On June 16, Mr. Grupp and other business managers won a reprieve when lawmakers agreed to delay imposing the fines for at least five months and perhaps a year to see if employers fulfill a promise to increase apprenticeships voluntarily.
Also, despite little union participation, England has managed to increase apprenticeships tenfold between the early 1990s and 2011.
A key positive is the commitment to increasing apprenticeships.
Rather than increasing apprenticeship numbers, the funding changes will mean apprenticeship figures will radically decline and leave apprenticeships solely in the domain of large employers in the manufacturing sector – an industry that currently only accounts for 7% of apprenticeships.
The manufacturers' organisation EEF welcomed plans to increase funding for apprenticeships in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, but it too said questions remained over the levy's design and it pushed for a later start date.
In light of our findings, we consider how financial concerns might be addressed in order to increase uptake of apprenticeships by more employers.
The introduction of an apprenticeship levy is seen by policymakers as one way to increase employer demand for apprenticeships as is the move from apprenticeship frameworks to the development of standards through Trailblazer groups of employers setting out the skill development requirements of apprenticeships, but there are potentially other measures to consider, as well.
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