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The FE sector should judge the quality of their training programmes on the jobs that learners end up in, skills minister Gillian Keegan has said. Her comment comes a day after Association of Colleges boss David Hughes told the education select committee that college funding should shift to be based on outcome for students, rather […]
News
The volume of apprentices who require more training due to Covid-19 interruptions is starting to “spiral steeply”, providers have warned as they make a fresh plea for extra financial support. In a new submission to the Department for Education, the Association of Employment and Learning Providers has today called on the government to extend funded […]
The AELP Business Recovery Conference on 9-10 September 2020 is the flagship skills event of the year. Presented online via Zoom, keynote speakers include: Apprenticeships and skills minister Gillian Keegan Shadow skills minister Toby Perkins West Midlands mayor Andy Street ESFA apprenticeships director Peter Mucklow CBI UK policy director Matthew Fell AELP chairman Martin Dunford. […]
News, Opinion
The Department for Education has published its first set of board minutes since February 2018 – more than two years ago. It follows freedom of information requests from FE Week’s sister title FE Week asking for the information. The DfE first told FE Week it could not release the board minutes because it planned to published […]
New rules on funding 19 to 24 year-olds completing traineeships have been released by the Education and Skills Funding Agency, after the government announced a £111 million boost for the ‘proven’ programme. Guidance around initiatives announced by the ESFA last month, such as cutting the hours for the programme’s mandatory work placement from 100 to […]
The Association of Colleges has written to education secretary Gavin Williamson and Ofqual chief regulator Sally Collier calling for an “urgent” review into the standardisation process used for A-level results from larger centres. David Hughes, the association’s chief executive, writes in the letter it appears some colleges with larger numbers of A-level students have been […]
On the day BTEC learners will be finding out their results, Cindy Rampersaud writes about how their skills will help the country rebuild. This year, 250,000 post-16 young people and adults will be receiving their BTEC qualifications. It is a time of anticipation, nervousness and hope but set against the unprecedented disruption caused by COVID-19 […]
Opinion
A new service that allows employers to share their vacancies with redundant apprentices has been launched by the Department for Education. The “vacancy sharing service” has been set up alongside a new online and telephone support service for apprentices who have lost their jobs during Covid-19 outbreak. Apprenticeship vacancies can already be viewed via the […]
A long-running adult education charity in Brighton is to close with the loss of almost 50 jobs tomorrow after a local council rescue deal collapsed at the eleventh hour. Staff at the Friends Centre were expecting to transfer to Brighton and Hove City Council, which the learning provider subcontracts from, on August 1 with the […]
