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Funding reform study finds employers unaware of apprenticeship costs

Government research on apprenticeship funding reform proposals has found that employers were generally in the dark about how much...

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Apprenticeships to the rescue of the High Street

Apprenticeships could help save the country’s “struggling” high streets, according to the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills...

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Providers will ‘no longer be able to force employers to take training they want to offer’, says Gove

Routing apprenticeship funding directly to employers will mean providers can no longer “force employers to take whatever training they...

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Nick Linford
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Apprentices get new NUS-backed pressure group

A new pressure group for apprentices has been launched by the National Union of Students (NUS). The National Society...

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News

Government funding agencies publish reports on Barnfield Federation

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) and Education Funding Agency (EFA) have this afternoon published findings from their investigations into...

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National Apprenticeship Week 2014

Download your free copy of the FE Week 16-page feature supplement focusing on National Apprenticeship Week 2014. Click here to download (5...

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Apprentice minimum wage cheat among those ‘named and shamed’

At least one apprentice employer was among the first batch to be “named and shamed” as the Department for...

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Opinion

Is linking funding to outcomes more trouble than it’s worth?

Using learner destination data to determine funding for FE is “fraught with difficulty,” according to Geoffrey Stanton. The recent...

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News

Sector pays warm tribute to FE champion Lord Bilston

Tributes have flooded in for Labour life peer Lord Bilston (pictured) who launched the all-party parliamentary group for FE...

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