Education Funding Agency to delete ‘erroneous reports’

Errors have been  found in data and management information reports published by the Education Funding Agency (EFA). The reports,...

Government to pilot ‘traineeships’

The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced today that the goverment will be piloting a new pre-apprenticeship scheme, known as...

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Local Government Association critical of skills mismatches

England is failing young people by training them for jobs that don’t exist, while not providing them with the...

Pre-apprenticeships offer the sector a NEET solution

It’s not going to shock you to the core when I say young people often leave school ill-equipped for...

Richard Review opens call for evidence

The Richard Review into apprenticeships officially opened its call for evidence yesterday. Doug Richard, who was appointed by the government to lead...

Are Ofsted inspecting the waves or the sea?

Last week, a students’ union representative at a large college described to me a wonderful teacher who in every...

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SFA publish sub-contractor management fee percentages

This afternoon the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) published the “2011/12 Percentage of SFA funds that are drawn down for...