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Government moves to align traineeship rules for 16 to 18 and 19 to 24-year-olds have been welcomed by the FE and skills sector. Older trainees with level two qualifications will, from January, be able to enrol on the programme — like 16 to 18-year-olds. The change follows the government’s eight-week consultation on traineeships, which had […]
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The pre-general election AoC manifesto makes a number of requests to the next Government. Richard Atkins outlines the key points and underlying message. With just six months to go to the General Election, this period of time is crucial for general FE and sixth form colleges. The AoC has set out its stall of recommendations […]
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Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has challenged employers to engage more with colleges in an effort to bridge the skills gap. The education watchdog chief inspector said businesses should consider apprenticeships as the answer to their vacancies problems. Speaking to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)’s East of England education conference in Cambridge on Tuesday […]
The march towards a digital future is not in doubt, but how colleges stay on course is the cause of many a sleepless night for those in the FE sector, explains Ian Fordham. There is a critical mass of factors coming together around the digital agenda in the UK that has the potential to disrupt […]
Plans for a new traineeship funding system, in which providers could be paid based on learner job outcomes for 2015/16, has been rejected by Skills Minister Nick Boles. The government’s eight-week consultation on traineeships considered making progression into apprenticeships, jobs or further learning a funding incentive. Launching the consultation in June, then-Skills Minister Matthew Hancock […]
Discount supermarket Aldi has revealed plans to create up to 1,000 apprenticeships as it looks to double its high street presence in the UK. The German chain announced last week it was planning to double its UK store numbers to 1,000, creating up to 35,000 new jobs — around 1,000 of which would be apprenticeships, […]
More debate is needed about the future of the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) in the face of plans by Ofqual to abolish it, says Graham Hasting-Evans. we agree that change is necessary, but reliance on the General Conditions of Recognition (GCoR) as a replacement for an employer-recognised framework is inadequate to meet the needs […]
The Deputy Prime Minister today announced “revolutionary” plans for a UCas-style vocational database for 16 to 18-year-olds — but UCas said the service already existed. Nick Clegg (pictured) told visitors to the Skills Show, at Birmingham NEC, the government would set up a “fully-comprehensive national database” of post-16 skills and employer led-courses and opportunities in England […]
The training of engineers for the fracking industry will be led by Blackpool and The Fylde College after the government awarded the contract for another national college. The college has been unveiled as a hub for the National College for Onshore Oil and Gas, which is being established by UKOOG, the representative body for the […]
