By Phil Hitchox
While many still ponder whether to hire a graduate or implement an apprenticeship scheme, we asked Phil Hitchox, director of commercial and business development at First4Skills, on his thoughts on how the two options compare.
By Tracy Ewen
National Apprenticeship Week offers the chance for small business bosses to consider implementing a scheme of their own. But since the announcement of the National Living Wage and the apprenticeship levy, many SMEs are concerned about taking the leap.
Market jitters have been rife over the last few weeks following confirmation there will be an EU referendum in June 2016 and sterling has been left vulnerable as a result.
By Tim Snowball
The EU referendum is the biggest political decision to face Britain for a generation. But while the discussion is gaining daily prominence – it is evident that the outcome will have far reaching consequences for business – there are still some companies choosing to remain mute on the topic.
By Aidan Rushby
Aidan Rushby, CEO and founder of Movebubble, the property renting app, takes a look at the importance of renters to London and how they are currently being undervalued.
We all aspire to be more productive: to get more done in less time, and at less cost. When it comes to business, the company that can deliver products or services most efficiently is more likely to grow, outlast its competitors and provide a decent return on investors’ capital.
By Ian Baxter
Entrepreneur Ian Baxter explains why, despite family pressure, he is an advocate of remaining part of the European Union on the back of David Cameron obtaining “special status” for the UK, and ahead of a June referendum when the public will ultimately decide.
With the seventh largest economy in the world, Brazil is an exciting market for UK businesses – as Mauricio Munguia, head of Latin America desk at Santander UK, explains.
The money managers have started 2016 in a blue funk – but most are too young to remember what kicked off at the end of the 1980s and the fact that, with the exception of the instigator, we weren’t then doomed to years of economic gloom.
There is only one thing more certain than chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that we are now faced with a “cocktail” of threats from a tanking global economy; and it is that the best insurance policy against this sort of Armageddon in the future lies firmly with apprenticeships.
