Economic system Minister Gordon Lyons has introduced that plans are underway for the introduction of All Age Apprenticeships in 2023.
Economic system Minister with Dr Bryan Keating, Chair of the Strategic Advisory Discussion board and Colleen O’Boyle, a former Greater Degree Apprentice of the Yr.
He stated: “The difficulty of widening entry to apprenticeships and, particularly, the introduction of All Age Apprenticeships has been a topic of actual significance to many sectors throughout Northern Eire. I’m due to this fact happy to announce that work to increase funding assist to apprenticeships for these of all ages throughout all sectors is properly progressed with plans for introduction in early 2023.
“That is the end result of serious efforts by each my Division and the Strategic Advisory Discussion board on Apprenticeships and Youth Coaching over various years and bolsters ambitions set out in my Division’s 10X Imaginative and prescient to ship higher jobs for everybody.”
The Minister was talking on the closing assembly of the Discussion board and thanked members for his or her contribution to making sure that Northern Eire has the correct expertise programmes in place to assist the financial system.
The Minister continued: “I wish to thank the Chair, Dr Bryan Keating, and all members of the Strategic Advisory Discussion board for his or her dedication over time in supporting my Division because it has carried out reforms to wider apprenticeship and youth coaching provision.
“Of explicit word is the assist offered by the Discussion board at a time when important restoration interventions have been required to keep up apprenticeships and youth coaching throughout the Covid pandemic.”
Welcoming the Minister’s announcement and attendance on the Strategic Advisory Discussion board assembly, Dr Bryan Keating stated: “I’m very pleased with the contribution that this Discussion board has made since its formation in 2014 to assist the Division with its implementation of its Apprenticeship technique. There have been many challenges and successes alongside the way in which. I wish to personally thank all members, who’ve by no means wavered of their dedication and assist for apprenticeships and youth coaching, and it is vitally becoming that the Discussion board’s need to see apprenticeship provision widened has been addressed with the introduction of all age apprenticeships.”
Notes to editors:
1. CAPTION: Economic system Minister Gordon Lyons pictured with Dr Bryan Keating, Chair of the Strategic Advisory Discussion board and Colleen O’Boyle, a former Greater Degree Apprentice of the Yr.
2. The Strategic Advisory Discussion board on Apprenticeships and Youth Coaching was established in 2014 as an interim overarching physique, led by employers and comprising a variety of stakeholders, to advise authorities on apprenticeships and youth coaching at a strategic stage. A brand new physique might be established to supply ongoing recommendation and steerage to the Division and the brand new NI Expertise Council on issues referring to apprenticeships and youth coaching.
3. The deliberate introduction of All Age Apprenticeships implies that the Division for the Economic system will totally fund the off the job coaching aspect of an apprenticeship underneath the ApprenticeshipNI programme no matter age or sector, thus eradicating present age eligibility necessities.
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