Author: FE Week Reporter

This morning the Education and Skills Funding Agency published the delayed National Achievement Rate Tables (NARTs). Click here for all the tables. The apprenticeship achievement rates are particularly contentious owing to a several calculation revisions to close loopholes, as reported in FE Week. Full analysis will be published in the next edition of FE Week.

The new minister for apprenticeships and skills is Anne Milton, MP for Guildford, FE Week can exclusively reveal. The Department for Education are expected to confirm the appointment tomorrow, but FE Week understands she is already meeting with key FE sector officials. According to the DfE website, Anne Milton “was appointed to the Health Select Committee, […]

Two new junior ministerial appointments have been made to the Department for Education, after it was reported by our sister paper FE Week that Nick Gibb would be staying on. This evening Robert Goodwill, MP for Scarborough and Whitby and Anne Milton, MP for Guildford, have been appointed. However, it has yet to be confirmed […]

A copy of the Draft Labour Party manifesto was leaked to FE Week yesterday. Here’s the section on further education and apprenticeships in full. One of the commitments is to fund apprentice travel, so we’ve asked how much this policy would cost and above is our draft cartoon. At a time when technology is changing […]

Colleges and training providers were last night sent a funding allocation for apprenticeship starts from next month to 31 December 2017 for non-levy employers. Following a pause to the £440 million tender process announced on 12 April, the Education and Skills Funding Agency met their commitment to provide allocations to existing prime providers that successfully […]

This afternoon the Institute for Apprenticeships advertised for a chief executive. The IfA launched this month and is expected to have an annual budget of around £8m and up to 80 staff. Perhaps surprisingly it is only a fixed term contract, of up to five years, with a salary of up to £142,500. The advert says […]

Today the Education and Skills Funding Agency has written to providers regarding non-levy funding for apprenticeship from 1 May (see full ESFA letter below). After the pause to non-levy allocations, many providers will be relieved that “to maintain stability through the transitional period we will continue to apply current subcontracting rules to the delivery of […]