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THE number of apprenticeships started by people in Bradford has dropped to the lowest level since a Government shake-up of the system, figures show. Department for Education data shows people living in the city started 3,110 apprenticeships in the 2019-20 academic year. That was down 23 per cent from 4,030 in the previous year, and a 42 per cent fall from the 5,350 in 2016-17, when the apprenticeship levy - a tax larger businesses pay towards a national fund for the training of apprentices - came into effect. Additionally, small businesses in Bradford – those with fewer than 50 employees – took on 30 per cent of apprenticeship placements in 2019-20, compared with 40 per cent in 2016-17.
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IT seems only yesterday that the glitz and glamour of the T&A s Education Awards was taken into cyberspace for 2020. The annual ceremony was unique from the previous six years in that it took place in September rather than March. Even more unusual was the fact the event went virtual , with Steve Lowe, Sales Director at LocaliQ Bradford, presenting the awards live over Zoom. The change in schedule - and format - was all down to the coronavirus pandemic, which led to the first UK lockdown being imposed just three days before the original awards were meant to have taken place.
Cllr Imran Khan said the Council will continue to support schools
BRADFORD Council has said it expects to see more children attending school this lockdown due to the expanded definition of ‘vulnerable’ children. It said it is maintaining close contact with schools throughout lockdown to provide them with support to educate their pupils safely. There have been reports of some schools seeing an increased number of pupils coming into school this lockdown, compared with the first lockdown last Spring when schools were last closed. Wibsey Primary School headteacher Nigel Cooper said 170 pupils are currently still in school, out of a pupil population of 677.