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Expert Opinion. Beyond lip service: Driving real progress on Equality,...
This first edition of our new series, Expert Opinion, focuses on EDI, something which is rightly becoming a business priority, but one on which tangible progress is often frustratingly slow. Indeed,...
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Expert Opinion
The 5% Club has launched a new series called ‘Expert Opinion’. Based on interviews with experts from among our membership and stakeholders, these short reports are focused on highlighting best practice...
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Small business and the Apprenticeship Levy: 5 steps to success (that won’t...
One of The 5% Club’s aims is to support and spread best practice amongst its members and other employers. In this series, we aim to publicise good examples and challenge conventional thinking and...
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Getting apprentices to the finishing line
The 5% Club is hugely supportive of apprenticeships. Our members know that they are an important way of bringing much-needed new talent and fresh perspectives into a business, and of ensuring that...
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Fit for the future: using earn and learn to future proof business
“Earn and learn” is the term for a group of routes into and within employment which combine study with practical experience, enabling individuals to gain the knowledge and skills required to pursue...
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Virtual Work Experience: a lifeline for career-starters
As The 5% Club outlined recently in its paper We can’t let our young people bear the economic brunt of COVID-19, one of the most severe long lasting impacts of the pandemic could turn out to be its...
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Non-grads are not second-class citizens
49% of top employers prefer graduate job applicants. On A’ Level results day, it’s about time we stopped telling non-grads that they’re only fit for second-class jobs. I’m a passionate champion of...
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The 5% Club provides a submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review
The 5% Club have provided a submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review, which asks for the following to complement the points in our Manifesto for Skills Dear Chancellor, Submission to the...
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Reflections on Kickstart – An Expert Opinion from The 5% Club
The 5% Club publishes the latest in its series of Expert Opinions – this time on the Kickstart scheme which closed to new starts on 31 March 2022. The Kickstart scheme was launched in 2020 with the...
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Transparency and understanding will help the Apprenticeship Levy debate and...
The Apprenticeship Levy is an area of live debate within the Skills sector, with fact and fiction often coming together to create polarised positions. In this short article, Mark Cameron, CEO of The...
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Learning & development and employee wellbeing – members of The 5% Club ‘best...
Employers investing in long-term learning & development programmes see immediate improvements to staff wellbeing, according to new report L&D’s-role-in-employee-wellbeing-2023 The Open...
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Expert Opinion – Edition 8 Time to Sharpen our focus on Skills
For National Apprenticeship Week 2024, Mark Naysmith — President and CEO for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa at WSP (Patron and Double Gold Member) offers his perspective on the national need...
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