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Where are the higher apprenticeship grants?
2012-05-01 12:27:35
If there's one thing that we know it's apprenticeships. Every month we speak to hundreds of thousands young people who often (very eloquently, regardless of whether they're wearing a hoodie or not) tell us two things:
2) They want to know why there seem to be relatively few higher apprenticeships.
But what about that second point - why are higher apprenticeships thin on the ground compared to intermediate apprenticeships.
Currently, companies can claim a grant of £1,500 for offering an apprenticeship to a young person. However, 100% of that grant is only available if they are aged 16-18. For 19-year-olds (i.e. anyone who has done A-Levels generally) this drops to 50% .
That's why we're putting this question out to the world this week: "Why is a 19-year-old worth 50% of an apprenticeship grant?" We'd love it if you'd ask your MP (check your MP, most of them are on Twitter too (use #19sworth100%) ) - this way we hope to get an answer, so we can let you all know. If enough of us ask the question, we can even change the answer.
