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The fifth annual Colleges Week has kicked off with the publication of a report that shows schoolteachers and parents are struggling to give youngsters the right advice to prepare for the world of work. Colleges Week bosses are hoping students and lecturers will take part with a host of events up and down the country […]
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Principals, teachers and experts gathered to discuss improving the status of staff in colleges and training providers at a roundtable event in Westminster. The impact of Lord Lingfield’s independent review on professionalism in further education was at the core of the panel’s debate, which included chief executives from the Association of Colleges (AoC), the Learning […]
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The government’s departmental split over education responsibility has been branded “damaging and artificial” in a new report from the 157 Group. The division of arrangements for those aged 18 and under, and those aged 19 and above, “risks separating planning for apprenticeships from that for other routes.” Effective Transitions from School to Work: The Key […]
The jobs market of the future will be unrecognisable to most of today’s workers — education needs to grasp that to do best by its learners, says David Hughes, chief executive at NIACE. I’ve just returned from a fascinating week in Australia where I took part in a major conference on the future of work. […]
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A national training provider with nearly £2.5m of contracts last year has gone into administration with the loss of 40 jobs. The move has affected the education of 450 learners handled by Birmingham-based Skillsfinder UK Training. The firm, set up last year, had contracts with lead providers Total People and Remit. It also dealt with […]
Falling apprenticeship numbers among 16 to 18-year-olds have come as no surprise to Peter Cobrin, from Apprenticeships England, who looks at how to stop any further declines. So now the truth is out — government figures reveal a ten per cent fall in 16-18 apprenticeships. Let me provide some answers as to why this is […]
A training provider that helped deliver one of the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programmes at Morrisons is shedding a third of its 600-strong workforce, it has been claimed. Two in every three of Elmfield Training staff were warned on October 4 they could be facing redundancy, according to a worker who wanted to remain anonymous. Documents […]
The principal of a Kent College with a £11m budget deficit has quit on the same day as a staff strike. Bill Fearon resigned from K College on Monday night while around 150 protestors demonstrated outside a governors’ meeting on plans to cut 145 jobs. The principal, who has been at the college 10 years, […]
A glitzy opening ceremony, complete with an Olympics-style countdown clock, welcomed the UK’s 22-strong team to the EuroSkills competition in Belgium. The squad featured among more than 400 competitors, 316 experts and 39 team leaders from 23 European countries at last Wednesday night’s event. They were welcomed to the opening ceremony by members of Skills […]
