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‘Jobs’
Colleges in England look set to lose around £150 million of their income, 2 per cent of turnover, in the last term of this academic year. Most will be able to cope with that after using the government’s job retention scheme and negotiating open-book deals with key suppliers; some will need cashflow support. Next year, […]
Opinion
The Department for Education has launched a web page that signposts people to free courses that can develop their digital and numeracy skills during lockdown. ‘The Skills Toolkit’ directs visitors to a suite of programmes such as Everyday Maths and Learn to Code for Data Analysis run by the Open University, and Get Certified in […]
News
Unemployment is liable to jump sharply in the coming months. How should FE respond to the needs of young people and adults? Young people tend to suffer worst when there is a recession and the labour market slackens. They find themselves competing with displaced adult workers, who can demonstrate relevant work experience to prospective employers. […]
Jess Staufenberg finds herself spellbound by the new principal of Bradford College’s skill for telling an engaging story It’s a rare interviewee who can narrate their life in so compelling and entertaining a waythat questions become essentially unnecessary, but Chris Webb, the new principal of Bradford College, can do just that. If this Essex boy […]
Profiles
The mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority explains why they have been quick to act on cabinet office supplier support guidance for adult education budget funded training providers. When the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) took over the £126m adult education budget (AEB) for the West Midlands last autumn, we knew we had a […]
Training providers in the West Midlands will continue to be funded for the next three months irrespective of their recruitment levels, FE Week can reveal. A letter sent last night from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to its adult education budget providers (see links below) said monthly profile payments will be made to providers […]
Ofqual is hiring a director to lead a new apprenticeships team that will be “operating in the field” as it steps up its regulatory work in the end-point assessment market. This “critical new function” will include a team of nine who work remotely to find out if assessments are being delivered “appropriately and consistently”. Led […]
A college is set to sell a campus for up to £10 million in the coming days despite local opposition, after being told by a minister to “prioritise” the sale to protect its solvency. Developers have already been given the green light by the local council to demolish and build 108 homes at Warrington & […]
The number of apprenticeship starts in England dropped by 7 per cent in the first half of 2019/20, new government data has revealed. Provisional figures in the latest individual learner records return show there were 209,900 starts recorded from August 2019 to January 2020 compared to 225,800 in the same period in 2018/19. For the […]
