Amongst other things this will involve introducing a national retraining scheme, changing the rules on what
the Apprenticeship Levy money can be used for and introducing a right to lifelong learning in digital skills.
Not exact matches
Rising pension and national insurance costs, coupled with new pressures such as the
apprenticeship levy and hiring targets, mean schools are losing
money despite a pledge by the government to protect core schools funding in this Parliament.
Since April, many schools have paid
money into the government's
apprenticeship levy.
A new National Institute of Education is being set up to run courses specifically aimed at helping schools to use the
money they pay into the
apprenticeship levy, Schools Week can reveal.
The
apprenticeship levy, about to be introduced, has also been seen as a potential pot of
money.
Martin Thompson, executive director of the National Association of School - Based Teacher Trainers, said there would be «many demands on the
money returned to schools from the
apprenticeship levy».
The
levy requires all employers with an annual wage bill of # 3m or more to pay 0.5 per cent of their staff costs into a fund, which is topped up by government, and from which firms can withdraw
money to pay for
apprenticeships.