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Logistics skills council ‘offered solutions to non-existent problems’

Michael Woodgate considers what went wrong for Skills for Logistics (SfL) with the sector skills council having this month announced it was set to close. So farewell then, SfL. It prospered when government funding was plentiful, but its inability to convince people to pay for its services proved fatal. At the beginning, SfL’s reason for […]

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Edition 124: Sue Rimmer, Mike Hopkins, Sean Harford, Alan Birks, Michele Sutton and Norman Cave

South Thames College principal Sue Rimmer has been elected the new chair of the Principals’ Professional Council (PPC). She takes over from Mike Hopkins, who stepped down last month after his chief executive role at the Gateshead and Middlesbrough College Confederation was made redundant when it was split up after just over 12 months. He […]

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A4e staff ripped off DWP welfare-to-work scheme with false clients and forged paper trails

Four A4e workers forged paperwork to make fraudulent claims against a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare-to-work scheme, a jury has ruled. Ines Cano-Uribe, aged 38, of Madrid, Spain, Matthew Hannigan-Train, 30, of Bristol, and Hayley Wilson, 27, of Milton Keynes, were yesterday found guilty of conspiring to make false instruments on the Inspire […]

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Counting the cost of Labour’s plans to reform apprenticeships

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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Leadership issues under the Fetl research spotlight

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 […]

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Land agreed for HS2 college

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 […]

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Certification pledge amid Skills for Logisitics closure

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 […]

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The indy scene

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 […]

Opinion

Scores of apprentices hit by City Link collapse

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 […]

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