{"id":70932,"date":"2016-05-25T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7b171b7ba1cd1755e45bad8a1a3c7046"},"modified":"2016-05-25T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:09:00","slug":"news-story-thousands-of-apprentices-to-take-part-in-major-pay-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70932","title":{"rendered":"News story: Thousands of apprentices to take part in major pay study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The findings will be used by government to help set pay policy generally and make improvements in apprenticeship training.<\/p>\n<p>IFF Research, an independent research organisation, will be undertaking short telephone interviews with around 10,000 apprentices and will asked questions on pay and hours.<\/p>\n<p>The questions apprentices are likely to be asked will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>the number of hours you spend working for your employer, in a typical week<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>the number of additional hours you spend learning and training on top of your normal work. This could include<br \/>\nattending college, courses, workshops or training sessions at your employer\u2019s premises or held externally, learning at home, learning from workbooks, time with your assessor and time filling in a portfolio.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>how much you earn &#8211; ideally the amount you earn in gross terms i.e. before tax, national insurance and other deductions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The anonymous answers to these questions will enable us to look at wage levels nationally, measure changes with previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Apprentices selected to take part in the survey will receive a letter prior to receiving a call from one of the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>A <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gov.uk%2fgovernment%2fpublications%2fapprenticeship-pay-survey-2014&amp;data=01%7c01%7cCatherine.Lawson%40sfa.bis.gov.uk%7c873b6a4ced2b48e291ce08d383ce85e8%7ca5692845a7de49618f65689a71d38629%7c0&amp;sdata=l3f9rSZP6VSTiDksdErrigwRkLpS%2b5QFTbtjP0f%2btdQ%3d\">similar survey was undertaken in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Apprenticeship Pay Survey is an important research project providing information on training, hours and pay from current apprentices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}