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Young people hit hardest again in full-year apprenticeship figures

Apprenticeship starts for the whole of 2020/21 grew marginally on the previous year

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Teacher training
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Skills reform

Careers advice law change among three DfE amendments to Skills Bill

Religious sixth form colleges will also finally be able to academise

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Apprenticeships, Conservative Party Conference, Kickstart

Sunak extends apprenticeship employer incentives and Kickstart scheme

Apprentice incentives will run until end of January while Kickstart will go until end of March

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Kickstart

Clumsy, complex and slow: business puts the boot into Kickstart

New figures reveal less than two-fifths of Kickstart jobs created have been filled

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Traineeships

ESFA opens bids for new 16 to 18 traineeships contracts

Contracts worth between £100,000 and £300,000 are up for grabs

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Colleges

Three more college strikes abandoned as 10 other walkouts get underway

Staff have been on the picket line since 8am this morning

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Apprenticeships

New campaign aims to raise apprentice pay

Organisers hope the initiative will help tackle the high dropout rate in apprenticeships that has troubled ministers

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Apprenticeships

DfE and provider locked in legal battle over terminated contracts

It is believed to be the first time a training provider has taken the DfE all the way to...

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