The Future for Apprenticeships in Scotland

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Today Lorna was a speaker at the Scotland Policy Conferences Keynote Seminar: The Future for Apprenticeships in Scotland in the Royal Society of Edinburgh discussing ‘Implementing the Apprenticeship Levy in Scotland – funding, restrictions and issues for SMEs.   This included a discussion about:

  • Government priorities for apprenticeships policy in Scotland: providing work-based learning, increasing productivity and meeting skills gaps

  • Implementing the Apprenticeship Levy in Scotland – funding, restrictions and issues for SMEs

  • Priorities for Foundation Apprenticeships: effectiveness, funding certainty post-2020 and learning from best practice

  • Next steps for meeting the Government’s Graduate and Modern Apprenticeships targets: regional planning and tackling the post-Brexit skills gap.

You can view Lorna’s presentation opposite. Slide 7 relates to small business index (SBI) measuring small business confidence levels every quarter. You might be interested in accessing the SBI Scotland quarter 3 report.  Click here to access a summary of the report.  In March 2018, the federation of Small Businesses produced a report exploring the experience of Modern Apprenticeships and Small Businesses. If you are interested in reading this report, please click here.