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Two thirds of apprenticeships `convert? existing employees, report warns
30 November 2017
"Two thirds of apprenticeships are merely “converting” existing employees and could be certifying existing skills, rather than focusing on expanding expertise, a new report has warned.
Researchers recommend that Ofsted inspections should check that these existing employees being converted into apprentices are actually learning new skills.
‘Better apprenticeships’, by social mobility foundation the Sutton Trust, looked at whether apprenticeships are of a high-enough quality to boost the life chances of young people aged 16 to 24."
Related Publications
"Better Apprenticeships – Access, quality and labour market outcomes in the English apprenticeship system", Alison Fuller, Chiara Cavaglia, Guglielmo Ventura, Lorna Unwin, Sandra McNally. The Sutton Trust, November 2017.
https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Better-Apprenticeships-1.pdf
CVER Research Paper,”Apprenticeships for Young People in England: Is there a Payoff?” Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura, November 2017. No' CVERDP010 http://cver.lse.ac.uk/textonly/cver/pubs/cverdp010.pdf