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Apprenticeship starts dip 12% after functional skills rate announcement

Starts dive month after officials announced funding fast-track

News, Apprenticeships

National Apprenticeship Week 2024

A free FE Week supplement in partnership with NCFE, rounding up the week’s news and activities, along with inspiring and provocative insights and opinions

News, Supplements

DfE to introduce English and maths resit minimum hours and scrap 5% tolerance

‘Wholly unhelpful’ changes to condition of funding rules amid concerns over rising non-compliance

News, Colleges, English and maths, Skills reform

Local authority receives rare grade 4 Ofsted rating

Inspectors find no governance arrangements or quality assurance at Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council

News, Ofsted

We must ensure functional skills are fit for the future

Reforms have made FSQs indistinguishable from GCSEs and turned them into a barrier to progress

Opinion, Functional skills

Research shows the resits policy needs a complete rethink

New analysis by the EPI shows the resit policy is helping least the learners who need it most, explains Robbie Maris

Opinion, resits

Ofqual: Functional skills exams ‘not too challenging’

Regulators are investigating ‘potential issue’ with maths problem solving questions

News, Exams

Functional skills ‘commercially unviable’, research suggests

Average delivery costs still leave training providers making a loss on functional skills, even with funding increase

News

Apprenticeship starts grow 7% in first quarter of 2023/24

Achievements were up 22% on the year before

News, Apprenticeships