Youth

NEET trailblazer schemes given £45m extension

Local ‘youth guarantee’ pilots will be funded for an extra year

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

‘Less ambitious’ nursing apprenticeships pledge criticised

New target comes ahead of a 'refreshed' NHS workforce plan later this year

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Skills reform

Migrant skills tax take tumbled by £100m last year

Income from the immigration skills charge fell for the first time in four years amid calls for transparency over...

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted, Training Providers

Training provider to close after 40 years following damning Ofsted report

Managing director blasts ‘unfair’ inspection which found ‘ineffective’ safeguarding

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

Labour think tank’s radical plan to tackle apprenticeship levy’s ‘abject failure’

Give SMEs ’skin in the game’ by making more employers pay the charge, ban graduates, end the Treasury top-slice...

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofqual

Awarding body fined £15k for ‘serious’ conflict of interest failures

The company shared an office and staff with one of its test centres

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

NHS to save level 7 apprenticeships from funding axe

‘Mitigation fund’ launched for five health and social care professions

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Josh Mellor
Devolution

Mayor’s money to heat up FE ‘cold spots’

Capital funding dished out to providers to target towns with a training provision ‘deficit’

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

Ofsted sounds siren over ambulance provider’s apprenticeships

Apprentices aren’t supported with learning after their initial training, inspectors find at north east firm

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor