The unprecedented economic upheaval brought by the Covid-19 pandemic raises several concerns for the functioning of the English apprenticeship system, particularly in the medium-term as economic and social activity resumes. Even in normal times, firms with apprentices may fail: usually disruption is minimised by reallocating apprentices to other firms. But economy-wide downturns exacerbate this problem because of the risk that [?]

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2 May 2020

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LSE Business Review

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/05/02/the-future-of-apprenticeships-is-in-the-balance/

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