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Talks aiming to win JSA exemption for 18-year-olds

The government is in talks to grant 18-year-olds an exemption that would allow them to take part in traineeships and still claim Jobseekers Allowance (JSA), FE Week understands. Officials from the Department for Works and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) are, according to a source, in discussions with a […]

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Jobcentre Plus to help 16 and 17-year-olds, Deputy Prime Minister to announce

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is today expected to announce a raft of measures to help young people get into work, including allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to get advice from Jobcentre Plus centres. In a speech at Southfields Academy in London, Mr Clegg is also due to promise to “ramp up” the requirement on schools […]

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Government reviews UK Commission for Employment and Skills

A review of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills has been launched by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The commission’s performance is under the spotlight in the consultation, opened this week to close on Friday, March 14. It looks at how people view the role of the commission, its impact and […]

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Former beautician retrains as a builder and plasterer

Former beautician Jaqueline Butler had a career rethink after redecorating her house. Two years later, and with level one qualifications in building, plastering, and painting and decorating under her belt, she’s planning to launch her own construction business, writes Paul Offord. “Construction is a lot like beauty,” says Jaqueline Butler, “you start with a blank […]

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Traineeships to escape DWP’s 16-hour rule from early next month

A Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) exemption for traineeships that was promised last year by Chancellor George Osborne is to come into force early next month, FE Week can reveal. The government’s flagship youth unemployment scheme had fallen foul of a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rule that limits to 16 hours the amount of time JSA claimants […]

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To the defence of colleges over Leps

Ofsted director of FE and skills Matthew Coffey told the Education Select Committee last week how colleges needed to do more to engage with local enterprise partnerships. His comments reaffirmed the overall message of the education watchdog’s annual report last year, but Phil Hatton asks whether such college criticism is justified. Strangely, if you take […]

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DIY SOS team redecorates house for twins who lost fundraising mother to cancer

Students from South Leicestershire College have transformed many dilapidated rooms and community facilities since they launched a DIY SOS scheme three years ago. But the current team was presented with one of its biggest challenges yet when asked to repaint an entire house for twins whose mother died of cancer five months ago, writes Paul […]

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Peter Marples, director and owner, Aspire Achieve Advance

In early 2006 Peter Marples, fresh off the back of a merger between his provider Assa and training giant Carter & Carter, was vaunted in national press as “one of the least known and more powerful people in further education”. When I tell him this, he laughs and describes it as “an inappropriate comment by […]

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Jobcentres steer teens away from traineeships

Jobcentre Plus (JCP) advisers have been told not to direct 18 and 19-year-olds to the government’s flagship traineeship scheme because it would put their benefits at risk, FE Week has learned. Documents seen by FE Week show staff in a number of JCPs are being instructed to ignore the work experience and employability programme — […]

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