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The Skills Funding Agency wants to allay fears that a new payment regime could reduce funding for adult language courses. Concerns about the future funding of English for Speakers of Other Languages (Esol) courses prompted the National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults (Natecla) to say the agency should clarify its […]
News
Richard Marsh remembers his first job well. “It was the Eighties, just after the Berlin Wall had come down, and loads of construction work was being done,” he says of working in post-Cold War Germany. “I was part of a roving gang of builders, tarmacking roads and improving infrastructure, which felt a bit like an […]
Profiles
The needs of employers should be running through the veins of the school system. Young people should be fully informed about their choices – and have the vital skills for the world of work, , says Jason Holt. Apprenticeships have barely been out of the headlines over the past six months. There have been two […]
Opinion
Schools and businesses must both play their part in reinforcing apprenticeships, says Adrian Bailey MP National Apprenticeship Week is an opportunity to underline the crucial role that apprenticeships play in the skills base of our country, to celebrate the achievements of many of our young people and to campaign for the changes needed to get […]
The sixth National Apprenticeship Week is a chance to reflect and look forward to the changes that will drive up the quality of apprenticeships, says Matthew Hancock Apprenticeships are booming with more than a million starting since the last election. But there is much more to tell in this success story. As well as ensuring […]
Angela O’Donoghue doesn’t see herself as ambitious. In fact, the principal of South Essex College, who has set up a Sixth Form College from scratch and been awarded a CBE, considers herself having always been “lucky”. She has a reputation for reaching out to people, from teaching excluded schoolgirls to blind and disabled students, as […]
There was a surprise on the menu for Birmingham cookery students when a Michelin starred chef announced he would be taking on not one, but three apprentices. South and City College ran an introduction to cookery course in partnership with chef Glynn Purnell, to help him find a future culinary star to be an apprentice […]
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Trainee bodyguards in London were able to keep a close eye on an MP when she dropped in to find out more about their classes. The learners studying close protection at Free2Learn in Hackney were visited by local Labour MP and shadow minister Diane Abbott. Free2Learn offers training in security, retail and hospitality free to […]
Employability skills learners in Cornwall took to the high seas to develop their teamwork, confidence and skills base by building a traditional boat. The group of unemployed people worked as a crew over five days to build a small coracle as part of a programme run by Cornwall College’s Work Skills Training Academy, Job Centre […]
