training - government assistance
There are various resources available from the UK government to help businesses train their employees.
The Learning and Skills Council funds and plans training for over 16-year-olds in England – they are responsible for:
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Work-based training and young people
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Workforce development
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Adult and community learning
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Information, advice and guidance for adults
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Education business links
There are two main ways in which UK businesses can get help with training employees:
Modern Apprenticeships and National Training Awards are designed by National Training Organisations to meet the special skills needed in different employment sectors and offer employers direct access to high calibre young people training towards National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) levels 2 and 3 respectively.
These schemes cover traditional skills sectors such as engineering and construction as well as business administration, retail, banking and information technology.
Modern Apprenticeships offer people aged over 16 the chance of paid employed linked with the opportunity to train for jobs at craft, technician and management level.
National Training Organisations ceased to be recognised by the UK government in 2002, although most still operate.
The Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA) now operates, running a network of Sector Skills Councils (SSC's). Sector Skills Councils are developed by employers in industry or business sectors of economic or strategic significance and involve trade unions and professional bodies.
The key goals of SSC’s are to:
• Reduce skills gaps and shortages and anticipate future needs, through leverage on the supply side, and help employers and individuals to make informed career and personal development choices
• Improve productivity, business and public services performance through specific strategic actions based on analysis of sectoral priorities
• Increase opportunities to develop and improve the productivity of everyone in the sector’s workforce, including action to address equal opportunities
• Improve learning supply, including the development of apprenticeships,
higher education and of national occupational standards.
Individual employees can get financial help for training with a Career Development Loan.
A Career Development Loan is a deferred repayment bank loan which a person can take out to help cover the costs of vocational education or training.
The loans are available to everyone aged 18 or over resident in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) or intending to train in Great Britain and who, on completion of their course, will work in the UK, the European Union or the European Economic Area countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway. Non-EU nationals, who are not permanent residents of the UK may also apply for a loan after getting Home Office approval to study, train or work in the UK, but they are unlikely to qualify if there are any restrictions to their stay in the UK.
A person may borrow from £300 to £8,000 to fund two years of training, or three years if the course includes work experience. During this time interest payments on the loan will be made by the Department of Education and Employment, and no repayment need be made until a month after training is completed. On completion, a repayment timetable is agreed with the bank and a fixed rate of interest charged.
The loans can be used to fund
any full-time, part-time or distance learning vocational course, and if
the course is over two years long, or three
years with work experience, the loan may be used to fund part of it.
Only the
vocational education or training elements of a course are eligible
for assistance.
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