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The Youth Training Scheme (YTS) was the name in the United Kingdom of an on-the-job training course for school leavers aged 16 and 17 and was managed by the Manpower Services Commission. The scheme was first outlined in the 1980 white paper A New Training Initiative: A Programme for Action , and it was brought into operation in 1983 to replace ...
The Advanced apprenticeship is the largest of them, with 108,100 new starts, followed by the higher apprenticeship with 80,700 before the intermediate apprenticeship, with 64,300. Although the advanced apprenticeship has always been the most popular format, until the 2020/21 cycle the Higher Apprenticeship had always had the lowest number of ...
At the beginning of February 2008 the Labour Government published a document called Strategy for the Future of Apprenticeships in England. It introduced a quango, the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS). The National Skills Director of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) was to be in charge of the NAS.
The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) [1] is an employer led organisation that helps shape technical education [2] and apprenticeships in the United Kingdom. They do so by developing, reviewing and revising occupational standards [3] that form the basis of apprenticeships [4] [5] [6] and qualifications such as T ...
The raising of school leaving age is the term used by the United Kingdom government for changes of the age at which a person is allowed to leave its compulsory education phase in England and Wales as specified under an Education Act.
Primary school is compulsory, followed by the secondary school. 16 is the school leaving age; one may leave only after the release of Singaporean GCE 'O' Level results for admission to polytechnics, junior colleges, Institute of Technical Education, or work. 15 is the minimum employment age.
A university technical college is a non-selective free school funded directly by the Department for Education, [2] free to attend, and outside the control of the local education authority. University technical colleges specialise in subjects like engineering and construction, and teach these subjects along with employability and IT skills. [ 3 ]
The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c 22) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It alters the law relating to education. The precursors of this Act were the white paper "Raising Expectations: Enabling the system to deliver" published in March 2008 and a "Draft Apprenticeships Bill" published in July of that year.