Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship levy turns into Treasury ‘cash cow’

Transparency demands mount amid skills crisis

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

DfE records £96m apprenticeship underspend in 2022-23

Just 4% of the total budget was handed back to Treasury

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Revealed: Funding band changes from IfATE’s ‘top’ 100 review… so far

59 apprenticeship reviews complete, but other 41 standards yet to be identified

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Mark’s out the AELP Dawe: Former CEO quits board

He served 7 months of a new 4-year term

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Lifelong loan entitlement changes name and gains royal assent

DfE also launches £5m competition to grant fund tuition fees for HTQ modular students in 2023/24 and 2024/25

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Missing AEB contract award finally made public

Saga adds to concern about the whole procurement process

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Capita exits adult education citing ‘market conditions’

Major outsourcing firm also significantly reduces apprenticeship delivery

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
BTECs, Skills reform, T Levels

155,000 young people to ‘fall through the gap’ left by BTECs, report warns

‘Desperate’ ministers also accused of misusing data to overstate performance of T Levels

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofsted, RAAC

Ofsted won’t inspect education settings on DfE’s RAAC list

Affected providers 'will not be selected for inspection during the term' unless Ofsted has 'concerns'

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Freddie Whittaker