Apprenticeships
Thatcham Research awards Automotive Academy graduates
Thatcham Research held its annual apprentice graduation and award ceremony yesterday, which formed part of ABP’s Body Repair Industry Apprentice Awards.
CII launches Aspire Apprenticeship programmes
The Chartered Insurance Institute has launched its Aspire Apprenticeship programmes.
Insure the Box tops 2500 employee learning hours in nine months
Insure the Box has delivered over 2500 hours of employee learning in just nine months.
Blog: Young women, jump at an insurance career
As we mark International Women’s Day 2018, Angela Darling, group risk and compliance director at Complete Cover Group, feels the insurance industry has come a long way towards accepting women onto boards in the last 40 years.
Insurers celebrate National Apprenticeship Week
Insurers are celebrating National Apprenticeship Week by creating hundreds of roles and showcasing their apprentices.
Blog: There will be a tsunami of new apprenticeships
Don’t write the apprenticeship levy off just yet, says Matthew Metcalfe, claims manager at Covéa Insurance, explaining why the future’s bright for new apprenticeships.
MGAA'S Peter Staddon on giving young entrepreneurs a hand up 'the greasy pole'
The insurance industry can sometimes be slow to embrace change but Peter Staddon, managing director at the Managing General Agents’ Association, says it's time to help young professionals on their journey.
Career Development: Claims Consortium Group is creating new apprenticeship vacancies
Property insurance claims handling firm Claims Consortium Group is creating 12 new apprenticeship vacancies at its Somerset office.
Covéa's Lisa Meigh on why the apprenticeship levy is not just another tax
Many companies have written off the apprenticeship levy that came into force in April as another tax but Lisa Meigh, director of HR and Learning at Covéa Insurance, sees a pot to further future generations of insurance workers.
Regional Review: Glasgow
Glasgow’s insurance roots stretch back centuries to the city’s days as a bustling merchant hub of transatlantic trade. Today, its insurance market has lost none of its vibrancy, and its reputation as the general insurance centre of Scotland remains…
Career Development: A-One looking for new apprentices after a successful six months
A-One Insurance’s in-house apprenticeship scheme A-One Academy has been lauded as a success six months after launch.
Career Development: CII hosts apprenticeship ‘match-making’ event
The Chartered Insurance Institute has brought together leading insurers, students and apprentices in a speed networking event to mark National Apprenticeship Week.
Blog: The apprenticeship levy might not be as bad as you think
After two years of waiting – and wondering – the apprenticeship levy is upon us. And so, for those of you with an annual paybill of over £3m, you’ll now be paying 0.5% of that to HMRC.
Apprenticeships: A radical overhaul
The radical overhaul by the government of the apprenticeship scheme - with the core aim of creating three million new apprentices by 2020 - is set to have a major impact on recruitment and training in the insurance industry, potentially reaching far…
Post Power List 2017 – bubbling under: Mark Cliff
Executive chairman, Brightside Group
Post docu-video: State of the Broker Nation: The future face of broking
In an increasingly connected world customers are turning to mobile devices to fulfil their needs. How can insurance brokers evolve to protect their future from disintermediation?
State of the Broker Nation: Professionalism and staff
Michèle Bacchus finds out how David Beckham’s legs can help make broking more enticing and attract talent to the sector
Brightside's Mark Cliff on how apprenticeships will help UK insurance retain its world-class position
Brightside launched its first apprenticeships programme in September this year. Four bright young students from the Bristol area have signed on for a one-year course, where they will aim to achieve Chartered Insurance Institute status and complete an NVQ…
AIG's work experience programme makes students u-turn on ruling out insurance as a career
Two-thirds of participants in AIG’s two-week work experience programme said they were "quite likely” or “very likely” to consider a job in insurance after completing the course, compared to 67% unknowns at the start.
C-Suite Broker: Bollington's Paul Moors on why broking is like football
As a season ticket holder at Manchester United, every other Saturday I take my seat at the Theatre of Dreams, dreams that haven’t been too pleasant this year
Career Development: Allianz praises broker scholarship graduates
Allianz Commercial held a graduation event at the Andaz hotel in London to celebrate the 13 scholars who successfully graduated from the Allianz Partner Academy Scholarship programme.
Apprentices: You're hired!
A growing number of school leavers are choosing work over university and the insurance sector is capitalising on this wealth of much-needed young talent
CII's Fisher proposes insurance apprentice 'buddy scheme' to government
Sian Fisher, CEO of the Chartered Insurance Institute, has written to the government to propose an insurance buddy scheme for apprenticeships, which would take advantage of the ability to use levy contributions outside of firms.