Apprenticeships: How to ease the 20% off-the-job challenge
If you’re a business with a payroll of over £3m, you will have been paying 0.5% of your annual payroll into your Levy ‘pot’. The money you have paid will soon expire. If you don’t use it, you will lose it. Join this webinar, in partnership with ICS Learn, for some top tips and guidance on how to make the apprenticeship levy work for you.
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Out of the £1.39bn apprenticeship levy available, only £108m has been collected to fund apprenticeship programmes, according to a recent Open University report
If you’re a business with a payroll of over £3m, you will have been paying 0.5% of your annual payroll into your Levy ‘pot’ since it was introduced in 2017. The money you have paid will expire 24 months after it enters your digital account unless you spend it on apprenticeship training. If you don’t use it, you will lose it.
One of the main reasons organisations have not spent the apprenticeship levy has been the worry managers have regarding the 20% of time they ‘lose’ a staff member to training – a core requirement of all apprenticeship programmes. But the 20% rule doesn’t have to mean losing your apprentice for a certain amount of hours per week, rather it means they get time set aside every week to develop. And if you make sure they spend that time wisely it could benefit your business in the long term.
Join this webinar, in partnership with ICS Learn, for some top tips and guidance on how to make the apprenticeship levy work for you.
In this webinar you will learn:
- How to choose a training style that fits your needs, whether face-to-face or online
- How to turn the levy into a strategic advantage
- How online training can fulfil the 20% off-the-job learning requirement with minimum time away from the office
- How to set a flexible schedule that delivers results when and where you need them
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A qualified teacher trainer with published research into personalised blended learning programmes and change management, Stephen has focussed on the opportunities and challenges faced by the rapid development of individual and group online learning services, and the importance of quality in the successful adoption of these systems.
As Apprenticeship Consultant, Stephen works with companies that are seeking to maximise the return on their Levy, deliver learner success and drive change.
Mark was appointed as the Chief Executive of AELP more than three years ago. He is on the Board of WorldSkills UK as well as a range of government boards such as the ESFA Advisory Board, IfA Quality Alliance and the DfE’s Apprenticeship Stakeholder Board.
Most recently, Mark was the Chief Executive of OCR, the exam board, for five years. He has been a governor of primary schools, secondary and a further education college. Mark has a wealth of experience across a broad spectrum in the education field. Prior to his role at OCR, Mark was Principal of Oaklands FE College (and AELP Board Director) having been Deputy Director, FE Strategy at the Department of Education and Skills and before that as Deputy Director, Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit after joining the department in 2003.
Having read Economics at Cambridge University before qualifying as a chartered accountant at KPMG, Mark joined Canterbury College, becoming Head of Corporate Services in 1994. In 2000, he helped set up eGS, an e-procurement provider to the public sector. He gets his grit and resilience from supporting Plymouth Argyle and Boreham Wood, cycling and four school and university-aged children.
Edward Craig is head of Content Labs at People Management Insight.