Author: Billy Camden

The national finalists of the AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2019 were recognised and celebrated at a special reception at the Houses of Parliament today. Around 150 people packed into the Terrace Pavilion for the event, which also coincided with the start of the 12th annual National Apprenticeship Week. The awards event was sponsored by the chair […]

The Department for Education has today ruled out demands for employers to be given more time to spend their apprenticeship levy funds. The decision comes as the 24 month deadline approaches in May and after the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education warned there could be an imminent levy overspend. In its ‘Nursing degree apprenticeships […]

Providers are fuming at the Education and Skills Funding Agency after officials started conducting short-notice mystery audits in the wake of the 3aaa scandal, FE Week can reveal. In what appears to be the second major investigation into achievement rate data at FE providers in the past ten years, the agency began carrying out a […]

The government has been told to “purge” its official register of end-point assessment organisations (RoEPAO) after FE Week found a sole trader and a new company with no trading history had successfully applied. Sixteen companies were added to the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s register last month, taking the total on there to 215. FE […]

England’s largest college group has paused recruitment for a new chief executive after its initial hunt proved fruitless. NCG was left without a permanent boss in October after Joe Docherty left. Docherty was one of eight high-profile principals to step down in a spate of resignations last term. He was replaced by Chris Payne, the […]

The Labour Party has launched its second consultation on its plans for a National Education Service, which will explore how to move to a system “empowered” by “local accountability”. It will be of particular interest to colleges, considering Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn previously revealed to FE Week his plans for free lifelong learning could mean […]

The Department for Education is “encouraging” colleges to be more transparent about senior staff pay when they file their accounts – along with whether they have adopted the Association of College’s new code. A “college accounts direction” for 2018/19 was published by the department today and included “substantial” updates that corporations should include when submitting […]

A criminal investigation into disgraced apprenticeship firm Aspire Achieve Advance could soon be launched after the Department for Education requested a meeting with the police. The company, better known as 3aaa, went into administration on October 11 after the government pulled its skills funding contracts following allegations of fraud. Derbyshire Constabulary then started making enquiries […]

The Department for Education is searching for an organisation to design and support the phased implementation of the T-level transition offer in 2020 and 2021. As recommended in Lord Sainsbury’s technical education report from July 2016, the government plans to develop a course which 16-year-olds can take if they are not ready to start a […]