Businesses must work to remove outdated stigmas associated with apprenticeships

It’s National Apprenticeship Week 2017, landing just one month before the Apprentice Levy comes into action.

As part of the Government’s drive to create three million apprenticeships and double the size of the apprenticeship market to £2.5billion by 2020, the levy will be introduced as of 06 April 2017.

To meet this target, businesses need to actively spend time raising awareness of the value they have on prospective candidate’s careers and change outdated perceptions.

Simon Moffatt, Human Resources Director at Prudential’s UK insurance business, comments: “The tenth National Apprenticeship Week is celebrating the success of apprenticeships in the past decade which has seen participation hit record levels with 899,940 funded apprentices in the 2015/16 academic year.