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T Levels are new courses coming in September 2020, which will follow GCSEs and will be equivalent to 3 A levels. These 2-year courses have been developed in collaboration with…

Apprenticeships and skills minister Gillian Keegan has launched a new online and telephone support service for apprentices who have lost their jobs during the Covid-19 crisis. The new Redundancy Support…

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak today set out a ‘Plan for Jobs’ that will spur the UK’s recovery from the Coronavirus outbreak. The full statement is here but the following are…

Young people in the West Midlands will play a part in the delivery of High Speed Two, Britain’s brand-new low carbon, high speed railway, thanks to an innovative partnership between…

Workers from disadvantaged backgrounds are being left behind by the apprenticeship system, with numbers slumping by more than a third since the introduction of the apprenticeship levy, says the Social…

By Chris Shirley, Apprenticeship Services Manager at Network Rail MyKindaFuture, Grant Thornton and The 5% Club recently hosted an online event around how to remain reactive and agile during the current period of uncertainty,…

Skills campaigning charity, The 5% Club along with over 200 organisations across the UK, has signed an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling on the Government to publicly commit…

MyKindaFuture, Grant Thornton and The 5% Club recently hosted an online event around how to remain reactive and agile during the current period of uncertainty, whilst allowing for attracting, hiring and on-boarding the…

We can’t let our young people bear the economic brunt of COVID-19   I write to you as the founder of The 5% Club, but also as a fellow business…

  The impact of COVID-19 on young people’s prospects in the labour market and in education is rapidly becoming a cause for concern. According to the IFS, young workers today will…