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Labour’s apprenticeship proposals could cost taxpayers as much as £11.7bn over the course of the next parliament, according to Treasury research. Costings of 28 Labour policies were published on Monday (January 5), including three on apprenticeships and a further four affecting the wider FE and skills sector (see below). They suggested Labour’s spending plans would […]
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The Further Education Trust for Leadership (Fetl) has announced the four winners in its first wave of fellowship grants to fund research. Alex Day MBE, Ruth Allen, Tim Ward and Ann Creed will get up to £40,000 each to fund their work. They will be looking at attitudes to risk in leadership of sixth form […]
Plans for one of two high speed rail national college campuses are a step closer to fruition after Doncaster City Council donated land for the project. The council’s cabinet agreed on Wednesday (January 7) to offer the 5.1-acre Carolina Way site as its contribution to the project, one of the first to be announced under […]
Providers have been given assurances that logistics apprenticeships will continue to be certificated after the industry’s Sector Skills Council (SSC) announced it was closing. More than 30 jobs are thought to be at risk after the board of directors at Skills for Logistics (SfL), one of 18 SSCs in the UK, announced on Tuesday (January […]
I arrived back in Britain on Tuesday after three weeks’ magnificent customer service in the United States and the Caribbean. Unfortunately, thanks to BA, my luggage remained in Philadelphia. And I soon knew I was back in the UK by the ‘jobsworth’ at Heathrow who handled my missing luggage claim. She tried to persuade me […]
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Scores of apprentices were facing an uncertain future over their jobs today following the collapse of parcel delivery firm City Link — just months after it picked up a national award for its training programme. The company announced it went into administration on Christmas Eve and administrators Ernst and Young warned there would be “substantial” job cuts […]
The abolition of GCSEs in favour of tests at the age of 18 has been put forward by Confederation of British Industry (CBI) director general John Cridland. His New Year message, released today, outlines a system of “tailored learning plans” for 14 to 18-year-olds, complemented by the “abolition of GCSEs at 16”. “Britain’s young people […]
Younger apprentices are being hit hardest by minimum wage non-compliance with nearly a quarter not getting the right pay levels last year, a government report has revealed. The Apprenticeship Pay Survey 2014 indicates that 24 per cent of apprentices aged 16 to 18 and learning at levels two and three were paid less than the apprentice minimum wage, […]
As far as student debt goes, City & Guilds UK managing director Kirstie Donnelly is more qualified than most to sympathise with today’s hard-pressed learners struggling to stay out of the red. Just ask the manager of the Natwest bank that held her account during her days as an English literature student at the University […]
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