Opinion

Apprenticeship advertising: Is it counterproductive?

The Government has committed itself to creating an extra 250,000 Apprenticeships by 2015. This is a challenging target, particularly...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Response to ‘Government publish FE Choices’

If you saw FE Week’s front-page headline “Private providers ahead of FE colleges in government learner satisfaction survey” and...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The government need to sharpen their focus

It’s great as Shadow Skills and FE Minister to celebrate this fourth annual Apprenticeships week. Looking back on Labour’s...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Profiles

Sue Rimmer, principal, South Thames College

“We are heading towards the edge of a cliff, which we’re going to fall off,” says the principal of...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Uncategorized

Flexibility and ‘black box’ at top of AELP ‘In-Tray’

In the seemingly ever-changing landscape of further education, providers are forced to adapt at a rapid rate of knots....

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

NAO’s verdict on adult apprenticeships

Funding rates are unreliable The funding rates used to pay training providers for delivering an apprenticeship are not based...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Vocational quals counted out

Concern has been raised at the government’s expulsion of thousands of qualifications from school league tables. While stating that...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Young apprenticeships fall as adults nearly double

The rise in adult apprenticeships has continued to accelerate in the first three months of the new academic year,...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Employability qualifications are just the job

Increasing unemployment is fuelling a sharp rise in demand for short employability qualifications, figures obtained by FE Week reveal....

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter