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LSIS hires new apprentices for National Apprenticeship Week

More than a tenth of the staff at the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) will soon be made up by apprentices. The organisation has hired nine new apprentices to join three existing learners at the company. LSIS will soon be offering an additional two apprenticeships to make a grand total of 14 out of […]

David Cameron launches bidding for £250 million employer ownership pilot

The Prime Minister has opened the bidding for the “Employer Ownership of Skills” pilot and announced a second round of funding for higher apprenticeships. Employers can now bid for up to £250 million of direct public funding, bypassing colleges and training providers in order to deliver innovative apprenticeships and vocational training. David Cameron, speaking on […]

Commission on Youth Unemployment says more should be done to help NEETs

The ACEVO Commission on Youth Unemployment has criticised the government’s apprenticeship programme and current schemes designed to tackle youth unemployment. A new report, chaired by David Miliband MP and titled ‘Youth unemployment: The crisis we cannot afford’, says the government could be doing more to help young people who are not in education, employment or […]

Apprenticeship inquiry extends deadline for written evidence

The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee has extended the deadline for submitting written evidence for its apprenticeships inquiry. The new deadline, February 10, hopes to attract more responses during National Apprenticeship Week 2012. Adrian Bariley MP, Chairman of the BIS Select Committee, said: “We want to receive as much evidence as possible. “National Apprenticeship […]

Flexibility and ‘black box’ at top of AELP ‘In-Tray’

In the seemingly ever-changing landscape of further education, providers are forced to adapt at a rapid rate of knots. With that in mind, and in the wake of a number of challenges to the sector and a raft of new policy announcements, AELP put together a weighty agenda for its annual ‘In-Tray’ conference, in Leeds. […]

Gordon Marsden MP questions top SFA and NAS departures

Gordon Marsden MP has sent a letter to the skills minister questioning the departures of Simon Waugh, chief executive of the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) and Geoff Russell, chief executive of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA). Mr Marsden, shadow minister for further education, skills and regional growth, has asked why the Department for Business, Innovation and […]

FE Week mini-mascot (Edition 17)

Follow the adventures of FE Week’s biggest and smallest fan! Mostly this week I have been reading a bathtime story” And also you can follow our FE Week mini-mascot on Twitter @daniellinford

Young apprenticeships fall as adults nearly double

Adult apprenticeship starts have continued to accelerate in the first three months of 2012, while the number of starts aged 16 to 18 has dropped, new data has shown. Provisional figures, published by the Data Service in the Statistical First Release (SFR) today, show that the number of new apprentices aged 25 and above has […]

Christina Conroy OBE to retire as principal of RACC

Christina Conroy OBE has announced plans to retire from her position as principal and chief executive of Richmond Adult Community College (RACC). Christina will relinquish her role as principal on April 1, 2012, before retiring formally in October 2012. “I have been a teacher and senior manager in further education for over 27 years in […]