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If the Department for Education (DfE) wants to get more 17-year-olds onto apprenticeships then it will need to consider the role that the independent learning provider sector can play, says Stewart Segal. In placing a focus on the development of technical and professional skills, it is good that the DfE review is of a wider […]
Opinion
The Department for Education’s plans to get 16-year-old classroom-based vocational learners into apprenticeships after a year are assessed by Dame Asha Khemka. Skills Minister Nick Boles’ announcement of a “ground-breaking” overhaul of technical and professional education last week represented the latest in a long line of reforms to the FE and skills sector. The major […]
Sam Parrett outlines her view of the role of colleges in delivering careers education to as young an audience as possible. The conversation about careers education is a long running one. However, there is little doubt that young people need more guidance at a much earlier stage. For me, this must begin at primary school. […]
Like father like son is a fitting phrase to sum up the first career step of David Pollard who followed the footsteps of dad Bert into the Royal Air Force. At the age of 18, Pollard found himself applying for numerous jobs after leaving King James’s Grammar School in Huddersfield, but what he wanted most […]
Profiles
The FE and skills sector has never been more in need of clear-minded leadership and focus. Ayub Khan outlines how Fetl hopes to help develop such thinking. There is no doubt that the FE & skills sector has reacted and to some extent adapted to the changes required of it by government. Its strength in […]
Prime Minister David Cameron today called on businesses to back the apprenticeship levy — only for Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis to later warn how it would “wipe out” the supermarket giant’s entire annual training budget. Mr Lewis (pictured above) issued the warning as he called for a “balance to be struck” between allowing firms to […]
News
Former Education Secretary Ken Baker (pictured above) has hit back at criticism that his university technical college (UTC) project had been given a “get out of jail clause” in government plans for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) performance measure. Lord Baker, co-founder of Baker Dearing Educational Trust (BDT), which has been working to develop UTCs, also […]
A three-year funding cycle was one of the key proposals in the AoC’s submission on the Spending Review, explains David Corke. Colleges may just be the most important element of the government’s plan to improve productivity in the UK. With industry-standard facilities and expert teachers, students receive the very best technical and professional education, which […]
Stratford-upon-Avon MP Nadhim Zahawi (above left) today told how his “experience as an entrepreneur” would help him in his new role as Prime Minister David Cameron’s apprenticeships adviser. The announcement came during today’s Prime Minister’s questions and will see the remit to help the government deliver its General Election pledge to create 3m new apprenticeships over the next […]
