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The Budget will invest new funding in FE from 2019 to pay for increasing the amount of training for 16 to 19-year-olds by more than 50 per cent to over 900 hours a year. This will come as a welcome surprise to the FE sector, as when the Sainsbury reforms were first outline in the Post-16 Skills Plan last […]
News
To increase social mobility, government needs to look beyond grammar schools and universities and invest properly in adult education, says Sue Pember In his autumn statement, the chancellor specifically identified the UK’s poor productivity as a matter of national concern. Part of this productivity gap is down to poor skills, especially adult skills. Adults working […]
Opinion
A Sparsholt College student has been busy balancing her studies with hand-rearing an orphaned sloth named Flash. For the last six months, Gemma Romanis – who is studying for a diploma in zoo and aquarium animal management at the Hampshire-based college – has been developing skills by helping to raise Flash. Working full-time as a zookeeper […]
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Another 100 learners appear to have been left with heavy student loans debt but no qualifications to show for it, after their training provider under investigation by the Skills Funding Agency went bust. FE Week is demanding justice for them and hundreds of others left in the lurch – through our new #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign which […]
Do you know where the work is? What are employers in your local area looking for? How can you ensure the best possible future for the people you educate? How can you be sure you are running the courses that will lead to jobs and fulfilling careers for local people? These have long been the […]
In a week of two halves, a private training provider plummeted from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’ in one of Ofsted’s most damning reports ever, while the first FE college to open in over 20 years was finally graded ‘good’. Platinum Employment Advice & Training Limited received the lowest Ofsted grade across the board, with inspectors finding […]
The post-16 skills plan heralds a major change to work experience in the current system. The government wants college-based technical education programmes to include an entitlement to a one- to three-month “quality work placement” with an employer in an industry relevant to the learner’s study. Yet as revealed by the Department for Education’s recent consultation, […]
We are morally compelled as a nation to do our absolute best to help immigrants who struggle with speaking English, to integrate smoothly into our rich melting pot of a society. It’s such an important policy area, in terms of helping secure jobs and preventing significant numbers of people from feeling isolated. That’s why I […]
Lifelong learning is firmly back on the government’s agenda, according to the skills and apprenticeships minister Robert Halfon, who says the government’s new industrial strategy includes provisions for adult education. The green paper released on January 23 acknowledged a “growing challenge” with training for older people, and committed to exploring “ambitious new approaches to encouraging […]
