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Government should fund apprentice wages for SMEs, says Halfon

The government should pay apprentice wages and fund their full cost of training “for at least a year” if they work for a small or medium-sized employer (SME), an influential MP has said. Robert Halfon, chair of the education select committee and a former skills minister, believes the chancellor’s extra investment for apprentice incentives and […]

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Universal credit rules hold people back from training, warns report

Universal credit rules are excluding people from training and must be scrapped if the government is serious about its levelling up agenda, according to a new report. The Association of Colleges has today accused policy-makers of creating an “education vs work” divide. In a report titled ‘Let Them Learn: Further education colleges’ support for the […]

News, Skills reform

Government careers agency bemoans lack of Baker Clause compliance

The head of the government’s careers quango has bemoaned how independent providers have not been given enough access to schools to talk up technical education. Speaking at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers national conference today, Oli de Botton (pictured, right) committed the Careers and Enterprise Company to this year making sure more students […]

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Secrecy fuels suspicions as DfE refuses to share AEB clawback evidence

The government has refused to share the evidence used to justify its controversial adult education clawback plans – fuelling suspicion among sector leaders. Principals have demanded transparency after the Department for Education said that any college or community learning provider which delivers less than 90 per cent of its national adult education allocation this year […]

News, Adult education

Lessons learned from training through the pandemic

College leaders have shared the key lessons and insights they have learned from delivering training through the pandemic in a new report. The Collab Group of colleges has published “Reflections from Further Education Leaders on the Impact of Covid-19” to share best practice from the past year. It is based on interviews with leaders including […]

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Prison education: 5 things we learned from today’s education committee hearing

The Commons’ education select committee heard from expert witnesses and two sector leaders today as part of its ongoing inquiry into prison education. The inquiry is intended to review current arrangements for learners in custody, including what barriers exist to delivering apprenticeships. In the first of two sessions, MPs heard from NACRO’s director of education […]

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Ofsted finds apprentices without jobs at provider

Ofsted has chastised an online training provider after finding cases where, “in contrast to the records held”, apprentices did not have jobs. Applied Business Academy Limited (ABA) claimed it was an “isolated incident” but was also called out for poor safeguarding, after the watchdog discovered the provider did not know at least one of their […]

News, Ofsted

This is how we can boost the number of girls and women on construction courses

There’s a huge market for female tradespeople to come round and fix the electrics, so we need to get more on construction courses, writes Nikki Davis Being a college with one specific industry focus – in our case, construction – has lots of advantages. But even with our advantages, it still takes a lot of effort […]

Opinion

The Skills Bill is not about taking back control of colleges

Instances of serious failure are rare and the government wants to reduce interventions with the Skills Bill, writes Gillian Keegan This week we introduced the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill in Parliament. Not only did this mark an historic moment for education, it also signalled how serious we are about skills reform. While the Bill […]

Opinion