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The Open University's new report, 'Access to Apprenticeships' released today (26 Sept), has found that, while two thirds of employers consider hiring candidates with disabilities for entry-level roles is an important priority for them, many...

This first edition of our new series, Expert Opinion, focuses on EDI, something which is rightly becoming a business priority, but one on which tangible progress is often frustratingly slow. Indeed, despite research which proves that businesses with...

Gill Cronin, The 5% Club's Director of Operations was one of the judges in the recent Balfour Beatty Brathay Apprentice Challenge 2019. After a testing 6-month series of challenges with teams of Balfour Beatty apprentices competing across the UK,...

Gill Cronin, The 5% Club's Director of Operations was one of the judges in the recent Balfour Beatty Brathay Apprentice Challenge 2019. After a testing 6-month series of challenges with teams of Balfour Beatty apprentices competing across the UK,...

The Ministry of Defence and The 5% Club, two of the UK’s biggest supporters of apprenticeships, will today urge employers to prioritise building life skills in more young people at an event in Sheffield during the Invictus UK trials. The Ministry...

Employers from a range of sectors share some of their top tips for building life skills amongst apprentices and young employees. Business members of The 5% Club and their apprentices shared their experiences at a The 5% Club event on...

Bagnalls painting and decorating apprentice from Bradford has been heralded the best in the country at a national industry awards ceremony. Lewis Boyle, 19, was crowned Apprentice/Trainee of the Year at the 31st Premier Trophy Awards, organised...

FIS is proud to announce that we are launching the FIS Sector Skills Pledge, designed to bring the sector together to secure future sector sustainability and address the skills shortages in key trades, we need to work together as a sector. This...

CBI/ Tata Consultancy Services report Delivering Skills for the New Economy “The 5% Club supports the CBI’s recommendation for Government to work with companies and further education providers to create digital skills training to meet the...