Opinion

Learn from recent history to avert apprenticeship disaster

Government figures have revealed a dramatic 61-per-cent drop in apprenticeship starts between May and July, compared with the same...

Paul Offord
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First City Training slumps to ‘inadequate’

A health and social care training provider has been rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted in a report that warns of...

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Paul Offord
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New senior role for former SFA boss after Positive Outcomes disaster

A former Skills Funding Agency boss will take over as chair of the work-based learning specialist JTL, nine months...

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Paul Offord
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Kensington MP lends weight to college survival campaign

The MP for Kensington is backing a campaign by Grenfell residents to save their local college campus from housing...

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Paul Offord
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College leaders beg Theresa May for more 16-to-19 funding

Principals and chairs from 140 colleges have written to the prime minister begging for more funding for 16- to 19-year-old...

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Paul Offord
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BAE Systems: Apprenticeships safe from mass job losses

Britain’s biggest defence manufacturer has promised that its apprenticeship programme will not be affected by today’s announcement that it...

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Paul Offord
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Tender delay with single awarding organisation plan for prisons

Plans by the Ministry of Justice to appoint single awarding organisations for seven areas of study in prisons have...

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Paul Offord
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T-levels funded work placement plans criticised

New guidance on T-level work placements has been criticised by the Association of Colleges, which fears providers will struggle...

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Paul Offord
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Struggling PM pledges to create best ever technical education system

Theresa May spelled out plans to create a first class technical education system for the first time in our...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord