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The government has announced the names of 19 areas that will join its careers hubs programme, but they will split just half the amount of money handed out in the first round. Damian Hinds, the education secretary, said today that £2.5 million will go to 19 local enterprise partnerships across England. Between them they will […]
News
Flexibilities will be added to the controversial 315-hour minimum industry placement in T-levels – including allowing multiple placements at different employers, the government has announced. The move, which FE Week revealed was on the cards in March, is part of a “package of support” being offered to employers to provide what the education secretary Damian […]
Robert Halfon, the chair of the education select committee, isn’t always a fan of the great and good, admitting that he is more interested in people with frontline experience When I ask Robert Halfon, the chair of the education committee, to name the witness who has affected him most, I’m expecting a big-hitter. Andreas Schleicher, […]
Profiles
A college that crashed two grades from ‘outstanding’ last year is consulting on plans to close down its A-level provision – putting around 20 jobs at risk. Highbury College, which is also in a precarious financial position partly because of an ongoing legal battle with a Nigerian state to recover a £1.4 million debt, informed […]
No college would consider it had done a good job if it allowed students to complete their studies without learning how to research information online. But this is the reality in prisons across the country. Cath Murray finds out about the challenges of running an education department on the inside. Sarah Aumeer doesn’t understand why […]
Feature, News
The Institute for Apprenticeships is to trial “gender-neutral” language in a bid to boost the number of female STEM apprentices – after research found “masculine” words in job adverts, such as “ambition”, “challenging” and “leader”, deter them from applying. The chronic under-representation of women taking apprenticeships in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is a […]
A scheme by The Open University to provide free online functional skills courses has been extended to level 2. Pilots offering the English and maths programmes up to level 1 got under way in February and have been accessed by 12,000 people already, according to the university. Funded by the Department for Education’s flexible learning […]
Nearly 40 staff are expected to lose their jobs as part of a restructure at a college that received a government bailout of over £20 million last year. Stoke-on-Trent College is currently consulting on the plans that will not affect frontline teaching roles, but will see up to 103 staff in business support roles having […]
The University and College Union has written to the justice secretary urging him to intervene over a training provider’s plans to cut more than 100 jobs. The union said in a letter addressed to David Gauke that Novus, a prison education provider part of the LTE Group, which also runs The Manchester College, has placed […]
