AELP has reiterated its call for a modernised approach to accountability for apprenticeship training providers, based on a wider range of quality indicators. Instead of using outdated methodology for calculating apprenticeship achievement rates, AELP has called for more focus to be placed on up-to-date and relevant measures such as earnings and progression measuring outcomes for learners – including those who do not complete their apprenticeship. There also needs to be a focus on the role of employer behaviour and accountability in how apprenticeship achievement is measured.
The QAR now stands at 53.4%, which AELP believes is partly due to the residual impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and that the methodology still counts learners who left years ago based on their planned end dates alongside the impact breaks-in-learning has had.
Meanwhile, AELP has welcomed support measures being implemented by the Department of Education to help increase completions which have been set out in a letter to the sector from the Skills Minister Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP.
