Author: Billy Camden

All providers on the government’s register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP) will need to reapply yet again over the course of the next year as plans for another “refresh” are unveiled. The Education and Skills Funding Agency published further details today about the next phase of register which has been closed to new applicants since […]

Eleven colleges that showcase “the best and most innovative practice” in the sector have been honoured at the Association of Colleges Beacon Awards 2021. This year’s winners and highly commended were celebrated during the membership organisation’s annual conference today, which is taking place virtually amid the coronavirus pandemic. AoC chief executive David Hughes highlighted how […]

The long-awaited national adult education budget tender has been launched by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. Bids for a slice of the £73 million initially up for grabs in 2021/22 are being invited over the next six weeks, with a final deadline of 22 March. The procurement includes caps depending on the type of […]

Bids for the UK’s new £110 million Turing Scheme will open to universities, FE providers and schools next month. The Department for Education has today announced the “next phase” of the international student exchange programme by launching a website which outlines its funding rates and eligibility criteria ahead of a six-week bidding process in March. […]

England’s fastest growing apprenticeship provider is under investigation by the Education and Skills Funding Agency and faces going bust, FE Week can reveal. Logistics.com (UK) Ltd only became a government-approved apprenticeship provider in March 2020, at which point it swiftly changed ownership. In the following eight months during a pandemic more than 1,100 apprentices, mostly […]

Training providers are “disappointed”, “extremely frustrated” and predict a “disjointed and likely stuttering start” to the government’s lifetime skills guarantee. Funding for starts on the new fully funded level 3 offer for 24-year-old learners and above, announced by the prime minister last October, will be allocated to training providers as part of the adult education […]

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has today revealed a new in-year growth funding calculation for 16 to 18-year-olds to support “modest growth”. The news comes after mounting pressure for greater support for an estimated 20,000 students who are currently going unfunded in colleges due to FE’s lagged funding model and a surge in young […]

The government’s £50 million rollout of the skills bootcamps policy has come under fire for only funding sectors heavily dominated by men. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the extension of the bootcamp pilot as part of a “refreshed Industrial Strategy” at the launch of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee, last September. Paid for from the new […]