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...The clawback in the use-it-or-lose-it scheme coincided with a 72 per cent drop in entry-level apprenticeships in England and a 59 per cent drop in all apprenticeship starts by those aged 18 and under, according...
...Onward recommended that the government fully fund apprenticeships for 16 to 18-year-olds and give regional mayors more responsibility for brokering training, as well as encouraging larger businesses to recruit...
...The pressure to impose such a levy has increased with the cost of living crisis engulfing British households....
...Only around 500 people graduated from EMBA courses in the 2017-18 academic year, according to the Chartered Association of Business Schools (Cabs). This summer there were 15,000....
...About 12.8 per cent of apprenticeship starts in 2017-18, the first full year of the programme, were at foundation degree level or higher, compared with 5.3 per cent in 2015-16, according to a report by the...
...“These are still concept stocks,” says Dan Levy, an automotive analyst at Credit Suisse....
...The UK now produces just 18 per cent of the fruit we eat and 55 per cent of the fresh vegetables....
...training rather than the levy, according to Ms Henehan....
...It would include a 1-2 per cent levy on all new-build properties over the next 10 years....
...Noticeboard The FT’s Executive EMBA ranking will be out next Monday on October 18. The top programmes will be revealed in ft.com/emba and rankings.ft.com on the day....
...Jonathan BrogaardMy name is Jonathan Brogaard. I am a professor of finance at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business....
...Columbia professor Jonathan Knee’s well-argued opinion piece in the NYT’s DealBook section challenges the idea that platform giants can’t be easily disrupted....
...There were 375,800 apprenticeships across all levels in the 2017/18 academic year, 26 per cent fewer than in 2015/16, before the levy was introduced....
...Additional reporting by Jonathan Eley...
...Jonathan Peall, tax director at KPMG UK, suggests that such declarations are not enough. He says: “The law will have to develop to codify the situation....
...Since April 2017 apprenticeships in England have been funded through a levy equivalent to 0.5 per cent of salary costs on companies whose annual wage bills exceed £3m....
...Final thought This weekend’s How to Spend It magazine is a special edition on the theme of hope, guest-edited by designer Jonathan Anderson....
...About 12.8 per cent of apprenticeship starts in 2017-18 were at foundation degree level or higher, compared with 5.3 per cent in 2015-16, according to a report by the National Audit Office the government...
...Given that each of these courses can receive up to £18,000 from the apprenticeship levy pot, up to £115m had been spent on the standard in that fiscal year....
...Unhappiness that levy funds were being spent in this way, on programmes costing up to £18,000, prompted education secretary Gavin Williamson to seek a review into the MBA apprenticeship with an eye to removing...
...Since 2017/18 the number of adults beginning apprenticeships has grown by 25.6 per cent and those aged 25 and over has increased by 44.8 per cent....
...It will take at least 18 months for the UK economy to return to its pre-pandemic size and its recovery will lag behind that of its peers, according to a poll of more than 90 leading economists....
...The number of new apprenticeship starts fell 26 per cent between 2015/16 and 2017/18, the only full academic year for which there is data since the levy came into force....
...Business and administration is by far the most popular degree subject in the UK, accounting for 342,970 student enrolments in the 2017-18 academic year, more than those taking maths, computer science or...
...It looks very likely real wages will be squeezed further over the next 12-18 months through a combination of higher inflation, weaker wage growth and some tax increases....
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