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NewsYou’re hired! More apprentices for businessOur new policy brief You're hired! More apprentices for business sets out our vision for expanding high-quality apprenticeship schemes.Apprenticeships provide practical, business-focused training that delivers benefits to business and apprentices by improving business productivity and giving apprentices the skills they need to achieve well paid and satisfying careers. With the new government's welcome commitment to increasing apprenticeship places our briefing sets out recommendations aimed at boosting employer-led apprenticeship provision, and addressing the challenges our economy faces around youth unemployment and developing the skills that will drive business competitiveness. Our vision is for a system that encourages more employers and young people to become involved in apprenticeships. This will require steps to support SMEs and to cut back on the bureaucracy that often frustrates employers; while apprenticeships should be promoted as a positive choice for young people and a route to a successful and rewarding future. Many employers are already investing significant sums in successful apprenticeship programmes, but it is also imperative that public funding for apprenticeships is allocated to the areas of greatest value. Funding must be re-allocated to provide greater support on intermediate level skills, particularly to develop technician level skills in science, technology, engineering and maths subjects. This will ensure the UK is well placed to build on existing areas of strength such as IT, pharmaceuticals and high value-added manufacturing as well as future growth areas in green technologies and creative industries. Download: You're hired! More apprentices for business (PDF 320KB) Examples of the excellent work employers are doing to provide apprenticeships can be found here (PDF 110KB) CBI/EDI education and skills survey 2010The findings from the latest survey have now been published. Find out more.Reforms of skills funding proposedWe have published proposals for reforming how the government spends the £4 billion adult skills budget with spending focused on increasing the number of people with economically valuable skills.Our Reforming skills funding: delivering productive results policy leaflet was published in November, ahead of the government's skills white paper. With public spending under pressure, we called for tough choices on how limited funds are distributed. Spending must be focused on priority areas that will drive business growth and productivity, with funding reduced on less productive programmes. We also called for a alled for a re-balancing of the funding settlement by: Key issues in summaryFor the latest CBI thinking on education and skills issues, see our business summaries.If you need free Adobe Acrobat PDF reader software or help with PDF documents, go to the Adobe Accessibility site at http://access.adobe.com Click on this link to go to the policy work page. |
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