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Niace and Inclusion merger casts jobs shadow

Staff at the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) and the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (Inclusion) face an uncertain future with a possible merger on the horizon after the two organisations formed a “strategic alliance”. Neither organisation said it could “rule out job losses or a name change” if the alliance, which […]

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Careers advice hotline brought under one roof

Careers advice hotline services for young people and adults are to be brought under one roof after Serco was awarded a £6m Skills Funding Agency (SFA) contract to deliver both. Serco, which previously ran the National Careers Service (NCS) advice line for adults, will also take up the service for young people, previously delivered by […]

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Colleges ‘not meeting employer needs’ on digital skills, Lords warn

Further education colleges are failing to meet employer needs when it comes to digital skills, an influential group of Peers has warned. In its latest report, Make or Break: The UK’s digital future (pictured below right), the House of Lords digital skills committee claimed that although the FE sector was “best placed” to respond to England’s […]

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Niace sets out demands for FE in budget submission

The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has demanded that the next budget tackle the “crisis” facing adult skills in England. A new advancement service for the jobless, extension of the apprentice charter, a citizens’ curriculum for employment support allowance claimants and partnerships to help loans boost participation in education are all suggestions made by Niace […]

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Niace proposes £100m ‘advancement service’ for low-paid workers – with poll

The government should top-slice from skills and careers budgets to pay for coaches to help people out of low-paid jobs, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has said. In the first of its Policy Solutions reports, No Limits: From Getting By to Getting On, Niace calls for £100m of existing funding to be […]

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Report showing £800m of public money spent on post-16 drop-outs ‘shines light on careers advice failings’ says AoC boss Martin Doel

A report for the Local Government Association (LGA) claiming more than £800m of public money went on teenagers who dropped out of post-16 education “shines a light on failing careers advice in this country,” Association of Colleges chief executive Martin Doel (pictured above) has said. Analysis for the LGA by the Centre for Economic & […]

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Fraction of qualifications survive the latest Skills Funding Agency cull

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) is axing the public funding of 1,567 adult qualifications in its third annual cull. Just 45 of 195 submissions from awarding organisations resulted in a stay of execution after the SFA said in November that the future of 1,612 qualifications was in jeopardy. Of those to have their public funding […]

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Tim Farron, president, Liberal Democrats

The political career of Tim Farron MP, former education and skills select committee member and until recently president of the Liberal Democrats, didn’t get off to the most auspicious start. His first elected role, as president of Newcastle University student union, culminated in him spending the graduation ball under a table. “I was very close to […]

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Further education makes ‘500 most influential people list’ as 157 Group boss Dr Lynne Sedgmore is named by Debrett’s

The FE sector has had one of its key spokespeople recognised on the 2015 Debrett’s 500 list of the most influential people. Dr Lynne Sedgmore CBE, executive director of the 157 Group, has been named as one of the UK’s most influential people in the 2015 Debrett’s 500 list, which was first published in yesterday’s Sunday […]

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