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Training provider slammed for ‘coaching’ students for assessments

Too many students pass assessments without understanding the course content, inspectors said

News, ITPs, Ofsted

The success of Labour’s skills reforms hinges on employer engagement

Skills England and levy reform hold promise, but they must be part of a wider strategy that involves employers from the outset

Opinion, Skills reform

Skills England: DfE non-exec appointed interim chair

New body will absorb IfATE functions while permanent leaders are found over the next year

News, Politics, Skills reform

Jacqui Smith should use her bully pulpit to challenge employers

The new minister for skills should use her new position to immediately task employers to recruit more apprentices

Opinion, Apprenticeships

Gordon Brown urges Labour to ‘ignore’ pause and review promise

Ex PM and Lord Sainsbury want new government to renege on a pledge made last year to rethink level 3 VTQ and BTEC cuts

News, T Levels

Manchester mayor builds support for MBacc

FE Week visits an Andy Burnham regional event to learn more about his plans to boost technical education

News, Devolution

DWP to merge Jobcentre Plus and National Careers Service

New work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall announces overhaul to focus on career advice

News, Employment

No ‘quick and easy solutions’ to ‘major’ challenges, Phillipson warns education sector

Labour’s 6,500 new teachers pledge will apply to colleges, according to a letter from the new education secretary

Election 2024, News, Election 2024, Politics

How fake skills cards have opened the door to building site blaggers 

The person purporting to be Adam Philip showed me “evidence” the CSCS card he was selling would evade anti-fraud smart card checker machines (designed to stop fraudsters like him), thereby getting me access to work on construction sites. Severe skills shortages across the construction sector, arguably made worse by recent qualifications reforms, have sparked a […]

Feature, News, Long read, Qualification fraud