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FE recruitment drive ‘pipedream’ without pay rises

Government aspirations to bolster the FE workforce “will be nothing more than a pipedream” unless colleges are given funding to raise teacher pay, a sector leader has warned. Anne Murdoch, senior advisor for college leadership at the Association of School and College Leaders and the former general secretary of the Principals’ Professional Council, raised concerns […]

News, Skills reform

Talks under way on threshold rate for college adult education under-delivery

Intense negotiations are taking place within government to determine the extent to which colleges will again be allowed to keep funding for courses that did not take place amid disruption from the pandemic. In a typical year, colleges are allowed to keep 100 per cent of the national adult education budget funding if they achieve […]

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Profile: Ian Pryce, chief executive, The Bedford College Group

JL Dutaut meets a longstanding college leader who thinks we could all benefit from taking the long view How does a leader navigate such times? A phrase keeps coming back to me that encapsulates our sector today: “the fierce urgency of now”. When Martin Luther King, Jr coined it in 1967, it was a call […]

Profiles

DfE expanding FE teacher recruitment programme with £3m tender

Suppliers are being sought to bring as many as 4,000 teachers into the further education sector by 2025, as part of an expansion to a major recruitment scheme. The Department for Education has launched a tender, worth £3 million, for national delivery partners for the Taking Teaching Further programme, which was earmarked for an expansion […]

News, Skills reform

Colleges need to know about changes to DBS checks

Colleges that fail to make necessary changes to their DBS check procedures could face a potential claim for damages, writes Joanne Moseley If you are in the middle of recruiting new staff for your college, then you should know that you must not ask for a DBS certificate made before a date in late November. […]

Opinion

It’s risky business to have an employer-dominated skills system

The Department for Education must put more faith in local leaders rather than employers if it wants the skills white paper to work, writes Andy Norman Having just launched the long-awaited FE white paper, skills minister Gillian Keegan was asked to name its biggest reform. Her answer – embedding employers at the heart of the […]

Opinion, Skills reform

Flagship £50m skills bootcamps prioritise courses dominated by men

The government’s £50 million rollout of the skills bootcamps policy has come under fire for only funding sectors heavily dominated by men. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the extension of the bootcamp pilot as part of a “refreshed Industrial Strategy” at the launch of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee, last September. Paid for from the new […]

News

Influential MP calls for inquiry over fears £2bn Kickstart scheme has become ‘chancer’s charter’

The chair of an influential committee of MPs has called for an investigation into the government’s Kickstart scheme after FE Week revealed how firms based outside the UK or with no trading history were selected as “gateway” providers. Meg Hillier (pictured), who heads the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, was “shocked” to hear how firms were […]

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New data shows improved picture for apprenticeship starts amid pandemic

Apprenticeship starts appear to be recovering after new data showed a less dramatic percentage drop amid the pandemic. Figures published this morning by the Department for Education show there were 91,100 starts recorded from August to October 2020, compared to 125,800 reported for the same period pre-Covid-19 in 2019/20 – a 28 per cent fall.  […]

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