Apprenticeship withdrawals cost training providers £1.8bn

New data from the Department for Education (DfE), gathered by apprenticeship software company Rubitek via a freedom of information request, has revealed that training providers…

A joined up approach to engaging young people, through engineering and motor racing

Kerry Linley, CEO of apprenticeship learning platform provider Rubitek, talks to ‘educational anarchist’ and GKN skills development manager Caroline Wood about how those of us…

A-Level Results Day: Let’s Get Students Talking About Apprenticeships

A-Level Results Day is upon us, which means thousands of students nationwide will be nervously waiting to find out their final grades. Then begins the…

Change to off-the-job requirement removes barrier to apprenticeships

Off-the-job training is a vital requirement of any apprenticeship, so why has it proven so problematic that it is now set to be changed? The…

Helping apprenticeship training providers prepare for the new Accountability Framework

From April 2022, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) began monitoring apprenticeship provider performance against a range of measures. The measures which identify areas…

Let’s inspire a new generation of women in STEM subjects

I’m sure International Women’s Day (08 March) means different things to different people. To many women, it will be a platform to redress the gender…

Let 2022 see a national recovery in apprenticeships

@Rubiteks: With new Government funding becoming available from January 2022, employers are now looking at apprenticeships as part of a strategy to rebuild following the…

What are flexi-job apprenticeships and how will they work?

Following a speech on adult skills made by prime minister Boris Johnson in 2020, the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak announced in his March…