
The UK?s apprenticeship programme has expanded since 2010/11 as a result of increased government investment. More recently apprenticeship policy has focused on raising standards, improving the quality and the introduction of minimum durations of apprenticeships.
This, according to figures released by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) in its ?Statistical First Release?, has meant some learners find it difficult or take longer to complete their apprenticeship. Despite this fact, however, it found that the number of Brits aged under 19?taking on apprenticeships?has increased. The government suggested that in order hit the 3m target in the next five years there needed to be an average of 600,000 apprenticeship starts per year, or 150,000 per quarter.?The figures provided by the SFA showed 153,100 new starts for the first quarter of 2015/16, from August to October. This is a four per cent increase on last year?s provisional figures, with 5,600 more starts.?And, as was suggested, the greatest increase was in intermediate level apprenticeships among the under 19s, with 3,000 more starts recorded. Read more about apprenticeships in the UK:- “George Osborne’s apprentices” could return the UK to economic greatness
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