2 February 2023The Apprenticeship Levy is being under-used in the automotive sector, with just 52% of motor industry apprentices receiving support this way in 2022, against an… Read More
11 August 2022The return of more than £3.3 billion in unspent Apprenticeship Levy funding to a Treasury “black hole” over the last three years has led to… Read More
13 May 2021The last 48 hours have seen two significant announcements relating to skills, training and apprenticeships. Firstly, the Queen’s Speech outlined the government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee,… Read More
6 August 2020COVID-19 caused a 75% drop in overall apprentice recruitment across the automotive in June sector with take up in garages and dealerships seeing an even… Read More
21 May 2020With 91% of larger employers in the sector being forced to change their apprentices training plans as a result of COVID-19, the IMI has written… Read More
29 April 2020The IMI is warning that COVID-19 could be the cause of a spike in the skills shortage in five years time, due to with employers… Read More
2 April 2019The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has welcomed news that apprenticeship starts have started to grow for the first time since the government introduced… Read More
27 November 2018As the song goes, “When the levy breaks, I’ll have no place to stand.” Well, it doesn’t go exactly like that if you are a… Read More
