Mentions:
1: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) I thought he would celebrate the 13,000 apprentices in Chesterfield since May 2010, the 11,270 apprentices - Speech Link
2: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) I thought he would celebrate the 13,000 apprentices in Chesterfield since May 2010, the 11,720 apprentices - Speech Link
3: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) Seventy per cent of occupations are covered by over 680 apprenticeship standards. - Speech Link
4: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) Nearly 70% of occupations are covered by apprenticeships, and there are over 680 apprenticeship standards - Speech Link
Written Evidence Mar. 13 2024
Inquiry: Heating our homesFound: Lines On IfATE’s Role and Actions IfATE’s employer-led model allows for the content of occupational standards
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: A flexible Grid for the futureFound: An Employer-Provider model is where the employer of the apprentices is the main provider of on-programme
Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) as apprentices who are launching exciting careers at J.P. - Speech Link
2: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) Friend consider embedding English and maths elements into the apprenticeships standards, so that they - Speech Link
3: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) I thought he would celebrate the 13,000 apprentices in Chesterfield since May 2010, the 11,270 apprentices - Speech Link
4: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) Seventy per cent of occupations are covered by over 680 apprenticeship standards. - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) We have also launched a mentoring pilot for disabled apprentices. - Speech Link
Feb. 27 2024
Source Page: Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2024 speechFound: There are now nearly 690 apprenticeship standards - each one designed by employers with IfATE to teach
Dec. 22 2023
Source Page: Building standards verification service - workforce strategy: closure reportFound: Building standards verification service - workforce strategy: closure report
Feb. 27 2024
Source Page: Catherine Large OBE at the Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2024Found: end-point assessments (EPA) offered by 153 different awarding organisations against 577 apprenticeship standards
Dec. 22 2023
Source Page: Building standards verification service - workforce strategy: closure reportFound: Building standards verification service - workforce strategy: closure report
Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of trends in the number of apprenticeship completions.
Answered by Robert Halfon
Since 2015 the department has transformed apprenticeships so that they are higher quality and better meet the needs of employers and individuals. The department has replaced apprenticeship frameworks with employer-designed apprenticeship standards which are more robust and harder to achieve, and raised the bar on duration, time to learn off the job and quality of assessment.
It is important that every apprentice gets the maximum value from their apprenticeship. and the department has focused its efforts on supporting apprentices to stay on their programme and achieve. The department is investing £7.5 million in a workforce development programme for teachers and trainers of apprentices. In addition, the department has increased the apprenticeship funding rate for English and mathematics by 54%, providing targeted support to employers and Ofsted are inspecting all apprenticeship providers by 2025.
The department is now seeing the positive impact of these actions. There were 162,320 achievements reported for the 2022/23 academic year, which represent the highest number since 2018/19, up 18.3% compared to the 2021/22 academic year. Furthermore, 37,400 people have achieved their apprenticeship so far this academic year, up by 22% compared to the same period last year.
On 21 March, the department will be publishing the apprenticeship national achievement rates for 2022/23 academic year as well as the latest data on the number of achievements so far this year. This will be accessible through the apprenticeships statistical publication found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of apprentices completed their endpoint assessment (a) on the date of, (b) one to three months after, (c) three to six months after and (d) more than six months after completing their apprenticeship in each academic year since 2016-17.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The attached table shows achievers, rounded to the nearest 100, on apprenticeship standards in each academic year since 2019/20. Data is unavailable for the preceding years as the achievement date was not collected as part of the department’s individual learner records prior to the 2019/20 academic year.
To note, achievements totals may not match published standards achievements totals as the attached table does not include those where an invalid achievement date was entered.