Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross

The names of the 21 colleges selected to receive funding as Maths Centres of Excellence have been revealed. The centres are designed to test and share new ways to teach students who are re-sitting their maths GCSEs, and will share £40 million over the next five years. The programme will be expected to design new […]

The education secretary will announce a £38 million capital funding boost for schools and colleges in the first wave of T-levels. Damian Hinds (pictured) is expected to tell the Conservative party conference in Birmingham today the government will be investing the money in “cutting edge equipment and facilities”, including computers and equipment for those studying […]

Damian Hinds addressed the Conservative party conference in Birmingham yesterday in a speech which included extra funding for T-levels, announcements about the maths centres of excellence and the need for a greater focus on further education.  Here is the full text of what he said: “You know whenever I ask anyone to think back to […]

The skills minister has said she is “open to” raising the apprenticeship levy transfer facility above 25 per cent but admitted that “fraud has been an issue” within the current system. Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham earlier today, Anne Milton said she had “no particular need” to keep […]

Plans to reform the apprenticeship levy have been criticised by some  large employers, who have voiced concerns that changes to the transfer facility will have “little impact”. Speaking to delegates at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham earlier today, the Chancellor Philip Hammond hailed the “flexibility” of increasing the annual apprenticeship levy transfer facility from […]

The government has committed to introducing all new apprenticeship standards in time for August 2020, rather than “by 2020” as previously stated. Plans to stop funding old apprenticeship frameworks and ensure providers were only delivering new Trailblazer standards were first announced in October 2013, with the frameworks initially planned to end in 2017/18. However, the […]

Employers will soon be posting scores and reviews of their apprenticeship provider in an online review tool similar to Trip Advisor, according to the Education and Skills Funding Agency.  The ‘what are employers saying’ service will invite employers who have registered apprentices on the apprenticeship service to feedback on specific aspects of their programmes, with […]

A cash-strapped college which was almost £16 million in the red has received a “major boost” to its finances after the government agreed to give it extra cash. Stoke-on-Trent College announced today that its bid to the Department for Education’s restructuring facility has been successful, although would not confirm how much it has been allocated. […]