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18 Mar 2015
George Osborne delivered his 2015 budget speech saying "Today I report on a Britain that is growing, creating jobs and paying its way." "Britain is walking tall again."
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13 Mar 2015
Research has shown that for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) there are real and numerous benefits of taking on an apprentice. In fact businesses experience an average increase in productivity of £214 a week when they hire apprentices. Apprenticeships have also contributed £34 billion to the UK economy in 2014.
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19 Feb 2015
Great news for SMEs. The Government will sign new five-year contracts with locally based providers to deliver export support to businesses, Trade Minister Lord Livingston announced today. Exemplas is proud to be awarded the contracts for Yorkshire and Humber Region and for the East of England.
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22 Jan 2015
The government recently issued a statement outlining the next steps in apprenticeship reform in response to a consultation from March last year “The future of apprenticeships in England: funding reform technical consultation”. The two proposed payment models in the consultation were either PAYE or Apprenticeship Credits.
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15 Jan 2015
Research commissioned by McDonalds reveals that “soft skills” are worth an extra £88bn in increased productivity to the UK economy. According to Development Economics and YouGov 97% of employers believe soft skills like team work, time management, decision making and responsibility are beneficial to the economy but surprisingly only half of employees believed that these skills are useable skills.
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