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Apprenticeship funding should be rerouted through the tax system

Highly-skilled jobs needn’t be the reserve of graduates, says Michael Davis. For him, a change in apprenticeships funding might allow them to solve the country’s youth unemployment problem. For the past 18 months, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) has been working on proposals to change the way public and private investment in […]

Opinion

Local Enterprise Partnerships to get college co-operation sweeteners

Business Secretary Vince Cable has named three local enterprise partnerships to pilot a sweetener scheme aimed at improving relationships between colleges and local enterprise partnerships. Partnerships in the North East, Stoke and Staffordshire, and also the West of England have been chosen for the Skills Funding Agency-backed trial to incentivise co-operation. “I can announce an […]

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Vocational skills to get their own ‘unashamedly aspirational’ A-level

A new ‘Tech-level’ qualification for vocational education was announced by the government today to sit alongside the A-level academic route. They will run from next year and were described by Skills Minister Matthew Hancock as “unashamedly aspirational” — aimed at raising the status of vocational education in England. Local employers will be asked to support […]

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Apprentice starts for 16 to 18 keep falling

The continual downward slide in the numbers of under-19s taking up apprenticeships is “substantial” and “worrying”, Junior Shadow Education Minister Tristram Hunt has said. He spoke out after the latest Statistical First Release (SFR), published by the Data Service on Thursday, showed that  4,000 fewer 16 to 18-year-olds started apprenticeships from February to April this […]

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Students step up to the crease

Learners from South and City College Birmingham are offering their building skills and services to local cricket clubs. The college and the Warwickshire Cricket Board, which is based at Edgbaston Stadium, have agreed a partnership through the ECB NatWest Cricket Force Programme that will allow construction students to gain work experience, while giving a helping […]

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Leon’s going to be rocking all over the world

A 34-year-old music technician’s dreams have come true as he joins the Status Quo line-up. Chris Henwood reports Status Quo, the legendary rockers who have racked up 60 UK hits over nearly half a century, have turned to FE to find someone to bang their drums. City and Islington College music technician Leon Cave has […]

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BMET opens specialist academy

A college in the Midlands is opening a purpose-built specialist academy with a curriculum focused on law, finance, accounting, banking and insurance. Birmingham Metropolitan College (BMET) has started recruiting for its Professional Services Academy, with courses getting underway in September. A number of city businesses have signed up to offer internships, mentoring by senior staff, […]

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Sandra Coats, catering assistant, Barking and Dagenham College

The first thing Sandra Coats tells me when we meet in the canteen at Barking and Dagenham College is that she’s “what you’d describe as ordinary”. But at the end of last year something quite extraordinary happened to this catering assistant from Romford. She received a letter from Buckingham Palace saying that she’d been nominated […]

Profiles

Traineeships extension to 19 to 24-year-olds in Spending Review

The government has announced it will be extending the traineeship programme to cover 19 to 24-year-olds as part of today’s spending review. Traineeships, which combine work experience placements with maths, English and employability training, are set begin in August for 16 to 19-year-olds. A government spokesperson has told FE Week the extension to 24-year-olds will also […]

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