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Employer Routed Funding: Employer responses to funding reform

Explores how employers� engagement with the apprenticeship programme would vary depending on how funding is reformed. BIS Research Paper number 161.

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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp broad aim of the study was to explore how employersâ€� engagement with the apprenticeship programme would vary depending on how funding is reformed in implementing the recommendations of the Richard Review.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp issues covered include:

  • employersâ€� current views of the training offer including their level of satisfaction with it and their views about the value apprenticeship confers on their businesses
  • the impact on learner numbers of asking employers to make greater direct financial contributions to the cost of learning
  • employersâ€� reactions to different levels of government co-investment
  • employersâ€� attitudes towards the routing of government funding via employers

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