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The Association of Employment and Learning Providers was one of the voices opposing a minimum duration rule on apprenticeships, before the government said they had to last a year. Stewart Segal reviews the rule a year on. The news that starts for apprenticeships lasting less than a year have fallen significantly during the last twelve […]
Opinion
Ofsted’s criticism of the college sector last year was a bitter pill to swallow and the toughened up common inspection framework offered little hope for sector praise. However, it hasn’t quite worked out like that says Joy Mercer. It this time last year, colleges felt they had not weathered an Ofsted storm but were beached, […]
Sir Geoff Hall has quit as interim chief executive of the Education and Training Foundation after just three months in post, FE Week can exclusively reveal. The foundation, the FE sector’s new self-improvement body, told FE Week that the former principal and chief executive of New College Nottingham and chair of the Information Authority, who […]
News
It’s just over a year since the minimum duration rule was applied, meaning most apprenticeships would have to last at least a year. Phil Hatton looks at whether the rule offers the quality assurance it was hoped for. I was one of the two authors of the first NVQ back in 1987, which really changed […]
Apprenticeship stories in the wider media of late have made hay about young people turning their backs on university and instead considering vocational learning. However, as Lynne Sedgmore explains, such promotion of an ‘FE versus higher education’ divide could be doing more harm than good. There has been a sudden spate of stories recently about […]
Bosses of the FE sector’s new self-improvement body, the Education and Training Foundation, have been warned of “sycophantic nepotism” after it emerged that no advertising had taken place for senior roles. The foundation’s chair and chief executive posts are currently publicly on offer, but interim posts, including director of contracting and procurement, look likely to […]
The number of young people out of work has risen despite the overall unemployment rate remaining the same in the last quarter, government figures have revealed. The number of unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds went up 15,000 between April and July, from 958,000 to 973,000. However, the figure is considerably down on the same period last […]
Young people who experience a workplace environment while in full-time education are far more likely to land a job than those who didn’t get a taste of paid employment, a new study has suggested. Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) showed the unemployment rate for young people who have left regular education […]
New Gateshead College principal and chief executive Judith Doyle said she was “thrilled” and “proud” to be taking up the post. She had been deputy principal for curriculum and quality at the college for four years before taking over the role on August 1 following the retirement of Richard Thorold. “I am thrilled to be […]
