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A new partnership
In 2025, the Department for Education and RateMyApprenticeship.co.uk are teaming up to co-deliver the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2025.
Alongside the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers rankings, we’ll be co-delivering the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers rankings.
This unified approach marks the introduction of a new era in recognising the best of the Apprenticeship Employers around England.
The Department for Education and RateMyApprenticeship.co.uk have also collaborated on a brand-new ranking criteria that ensures that every employer will be recognised for the quality of their approach to employing apprentices.
Genuine peer-to-peer reviews left by apprentices on RateMyApprenticeship.co.uk is one of the core criteria for this year’s rankings.
Other factors include the number of apprentices, the quality of your reviews, and the diversity of your apprenticeship cohort. See the full list of ranking factors here.
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THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England.
In 2024, the Department launched Skills England, which aims to unite businesses, trade unions, mayors, and training providers to address national and local skills needs and boost opportunity while driving economic growth.
Skills are crucial to growth, with a third of productivity gains in the past two decades attributed to improved skills. Under Skills England, reforms to the apprenticeship levy will allow businesses more flexibility to use levy funds on necessary training for skills. This will protect apprenticeships, ensuring opportunities for young people and lifelong upskilling and retraining for workers.
Apprenticeships support businesses of all sizes to develop the skilled workforce they need to grow, while helping people of all ages and backgrounds to earn while they learn and get ahead in their chosen career. The Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and Top 50 Small and Medium Employers (SMEs) league tables showcase the very best apprenticeship programmes over the past 12 months.
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RATEMYAPPRENTICESHIP
RateMyApprenticeship is part of the RMP Enterprise family. With our leading, peer-to-peer Career Platforms and bespoke Employer Solutions, RMP Enterprise supports employers to attract and engage early talent all under one roof.
We were founded by students for students. Since our launch in 2005, we’ve built a community of 800,000 students and support 4 million students a year in finding apprenticeships, undergraduate and graduate work experience that’s right for them.
Hosting over 130,000 student-written reviews alongside our tables of Best Student and Best Apprenticeship Employers, we are the most-trusted source for early career opportunities.
On RateMyApprenticeship.co.uk, you can advertise your apprenticeship roles to the extensive school and college network. Our community share feedback on what it’s like to do an apprenticeship and helps students connect with employers via:
Job listings
Company profiles
Sponsorship of key campaigns
Targeted emails
Retargeting social advertising
Organic social media exposure
