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Halfon should ask the Treasury to hand back the savings and fully-fund younger apprentices

This evening three national newspapers have reported our apprenticeship funding analysis along with a letter to the Skills Minister signed...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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It’s the system, not the levy…

After this morning’s apprenticeship levy update from the Department for Education – which FE Week was the first to...

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Too big a risk to take

There was much to welcome in the Sainsbury Review proposals for technical education, according to Graham Hasting-Evans, but he...

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Steer clear of trapdoors

Paul Noblet from Centrepoint, which recently carried out research into how traineeships are being implemented, argues that it is...

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How to get a good Ofsted rating for traineeships

Wirral Metropolitan College is the only college to have had its traineeships rated in a headline field under the...

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Developing a better pre-apprenticeship offer

Traineeships are useful, but pre-apprenticeships could be a better fit suggests Catherine Sezen. The benefit of a traineeship is...

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Traineeships must be left alone to grow and thrive

Three years in, it’s a critical time for traineeships. Mark Dawe argues that we need to leave them be...

Mark Dawe
Mark Dawe
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More consistency please over Prevent inspections

Phil Hatton calls for greater consistency with how Ofsted inspection teams report on the implementation of the anti-terrorism Prevent...

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Streamlining technical education routes for highly-skilled workforce

If we are to compete in today’s global economy against low-wage countries such as China, industry needs to have...

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