apprenticeship

T-levels are designed to cater for students who want an alternative to A-levels but do not wish to take an apprenticeship, which typically requires as much as 80% of a student's time to be spent with an employer.

They will go up to £12.21 an hour for those aged 21 and over, £10 an hour for those aged 18, 19, or 20, and £7.55 an hour for those aged 16 and 17 or in an apprenticeship.

The separate apprentice rate which applies to eligible people under 19 - or those over 19 in the first year of an apprenticeship – will also increase from £6.40 an hour, to £7.55.

In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the different levels of apprenticeship are:

If you are under 19, or if you are 19 or older but in the first year of your apprenticeship, you will be paid the apprentice rate, £6.40 per hour.