UK employers of all sizes are to receive funded training to help them develop top-level IT employees.

From September next year, businesses will be able to offer a full honours degree to staff while they continue to work. There are no student fees and employers continue to pay wages throughout the course duration.

The Degree Apprenticeship in Technology Solutions will be taught at eight business schools: Manchester Metropolitan, Aston, Exeter, Greenwich, Loughborough, University College London, Winchester and University of West of England.

A series of leading companies have already signed up to the scheme, such as Accenture, BT, Ford, John Lewis and IBM.

Liz Gorb, enterprise fellow at MMU Centre for Enterprise, said: "The aim is to integrate academic learning at degree level with work-based training.

“Students earn while they learn and come away with skills that are directly relevant to employers, who have an opportunity to instil their own business culture and working style from an early stage.

"The core content of the degree includes technological support, software development, database management, security and business organisation.

“But the integrated learning approach of workplace training and assessment makes the course highly flexible to employer demands – whatever the size or sector of the organisation."

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