Apprenticeships: Relaxing maths and English rules welcomed by firms Politics Firms have welcomed the government’s plans to relax rules around maths and English requirements for apprentices as improving “flexibility and inclusivity”. Apprentices aged 19 and above will no longer be forced to complete English and maths functional skills qualifications in order to qualify, which the Department for Education (DfE) said would allow some 10,000 more [...]
Finding the ‘Turing of tomorrow’: Multi-million pound maths grant to bolster AI and nuclear Science An open competition will run where organisations can apply for the grant funding, which will distributed over the next three years. It will be open until 4 June.