Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education Robert Halfon has strong views on degree apprenticeships. They are his “two favourite words” and he thinks all universities should be offering them. But you can’t cajole universities into offering degree apprenticeships – the incentives have to be right.
It has been six years since the creation of the Apprenticeship Levy, and nine since the creation of degree apprenticeships, and so those universities that found the original idea compelling have had the time to work with employers to get their degree apprenticeships up and running – hampered to some extent, perhaps, by the pandemic.
Contrary to popular belief there is also already a solid presence of selective/Russell Group universities offering degree apprenticeships, as we explore further below.
