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Why is there no appeals process for the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers?

After her company failed to get a place on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers, despite its Ofsted ‘good’ rating, Anne-Marie Morris wrote a letter to Sue Husband expressing her sense of injustice at the lack of an appeals process Open letter to Sue Husband, Director of the National Apprenticeship Service, Skills Funding Agency Dear […]

Opinion

National Apprenticeship Week is unlike any other week

This week, the skills and apprenticeships minister Robert Halfon travelled the country, meeting apprentices and employers all over the UK. Here, he argues that apprenticeships are going from strength to strength Why are we celebrating the tenth National Apprenticeship Week? Because we want to showcase the brilliant work employers and their apprentices have been doing. […]

Opinion

Unison: First4Skills collapse ‘could have broken the law’

The UK’s strict redundancy laws may have been breached when one of the largest apprenticeship providers in England unexpectedly called in the administrators last week, according to a major union. First4Skills, which received £15 million every year to run apprenticeships, told around 200 ‘shocked’ staff on Friday, March 3 that it was closing down. Now […]

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Chancellor to announce ‘over £500m’ per year in extra funding for post-16 skills reform

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 […]

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To increase social mobility, invest in adult education

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

College student balances studies with hand-rearing orphaned sloth

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 students left with FE loans and no courses after demise of provider Edudo

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 […]

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New jobs dashboard allows providers to explore local employment and skills needs

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 […]

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Ofsted watch: week of two halves for FE providers

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 […]

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