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Birmingham already had a college on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers, and it fills an important gap in provision, says Clair Mowbray Over the past few editions FE Week has been telling us that from May this year the Second City will have no colleges able to deliver apprenticeships, as all four existing Birmingham […]
Opinion
This afternoon the Institute for Apprenticeships advertised for a chief executive. The IfA launched this month and is expected to have an annual budget of around £8m and up to 80 staff. Perhaps surprisingly it is only a fixed term contract, of up to five years, with a salary of up to £142,500. The advert says […]
News
It’s a bumper Ofsted watch this week, with a total of 15 full FE and skills inspection reports published since our last round-up. What’s more, over half of these inspections resulted in a grade two rating or higher. These included HIT Training, which was rated ‘good’ across the board – holding onto the same overall […]
The search has begun for Peter Lauener’s replacement as head of the Education and Skills Funding Agency. The job of chief executive of the funding agency, which will be formed through a merger of the existing Skills Funding Agency and Education Funding Agency on April 1, is advertised through the government’s civil service jobs recruitment […]
Peers have passed an amendment to the Technical and Further Education Bill, which would extend child benefit and financial support available to higher education students to make it accessible to apprentices. The amendment – passed this week at reporting stage – is designed to ensure that any person taking an apprenticeship can apply to qualify […]
A serious blow has potentially been dealt to plans for a rigid post-16 divide between academic and vocational education, after it emerged the government is retaining Applied General qualifications. The Department for Education had privately briefed stakeholders on the decision, and confirmed it to FE Week this afternoon. Retaining AGs, for example BTECs that lead […]
The government will make a major u-turn over the much-derided condition of funding rule, FE Week can reveal. From August 2015 all 16 to 18-year-old students with a GCSE grade D have had to study and resit the GCSE as part of the condition of funding, rather than a functional skills qualification at level two. But once this policy […]
The vast majority of independent training providers deliver great results for apprentices, writes Bob Watmore The front page lead of last week’s FE Week was understandably sensational about some aspects of the recent register of apprenticeship training providers announcements – namely those experienced providers which didn’t make the list and the inexperienced ones that did. […]
Labour would establish an official pre-apprenticeship programme, and support apprenticeships for care leavers, veterans and people with disabilities, according to the shadow skills minister Gordon Marsden. During his speech at the Annual Apprenticeships Conference, Mr Marsden made clear his support for technical education, and hit out at “the lack of adequate resources” the government is […]
