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Life support for traineeships – but what exactly are they?

The flagging traineeships programme was given a new lease of life by the government this week with a major funding boost to help combat youth unemployment post-Covid-19. But what exactly are traineeships and how are they run? FE Week has spoken with providers, employers and a former skills minister to find out… Chancellor Rishi Sunak […]

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How adult education added colossal ‘social return’ during lockdown

All over the country, ACL tutors didn’t just provide new online courses – they kept an eye on the vulnerable during the Covid lockdown, writes Anna Mimms Adult and Community Learning (ACL) changes lives. The Covid-19 crisis has seen ACL at its most responsive. We created online offers so fast that we surprised ourselves. In […]

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The training programme that stokes up the ‘engine room of FE colleges’

The middle tier of managers have become more and more pivotal as roles within FE senior leadership change. But there is “a price to pay” if colleges do not prepare staff for the job, according to the FE sector’s workforce development organisation. The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) spoke up for the leaders it calls […]

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Providers ‘seriously concerned’ that Kickstart will displace apprenticeships

Training providers are “seriously concerned” that wage subsidies as part of the new £2.5 billion Kickstart scheme will displace apprenticeship starts for young people. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that the government will pay the wages of “hundreds of thousands” of people aged 16 to 24 who are claiming Universal Credit to take newly […]

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Gavin Williamson’s speech on FE reform: The full text

Hello. It is a great pleasure to be here with you today and I’d like to thank not only the Social Market Foundation for hosting this, but also you for joining me. We have all been busy, in different ways, dealing with the impact of COVID-19. The way people live, the jobs people have, in […]

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Coronavirus jobs plan must support quality training and be more than a gangplank to the dole

We need to avoid a fiasco of schemes like Train to Gain when rolling out the Covid-19 jobs and skills rescue plan, writes Tom Bewick The Chancellor of Exchequer has announced the latest coronavirus jobs plan. Like the ambitious furlough scheme, the Treasury is willing to pledge big interventions to help stave off a potential […]

Opinion

Speed read: What the chancellor’s summer statement promised for FE and skills

Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered a summer statement today in which he outlined the government’s “plan for jobs” to tackle unemployment post-Covid-19. The statement included a number of funding boosts and new policies for apprentices and skills, ranging from employer cash incentives to a third year of education to school and college leavers. FE Week has […]

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‘Kickstarter’ young employees cannot also be apprentices, Treasury confirms

Young people who take part in the government’s £2 billion “kickstart” scheme cannot also be apprentices, the Treasury has confirmed. Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirmed in his summer statement today that the government will pay the wages of “hundreds of thousands” of people aged 16 to 24 who are claiming universal credit to take six-month work […]

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Chancellor announces ‘brand-new bonus for businesses to hire apprentices’

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a “brand new bonus” for employers to hire apprentices over the next six months. From August to January, any firm that hires a new young apprentice aged 16 to 24 will receive £2,000, while those that hire new apprentices aged 25 and over will be paid £1,500. Announcing the incentives […]

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