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Sir Peter Rogers, special advisor to the Mayor of London

Sir Peter Rogers recognised the value of vocational learning at an early age. At 18, having researched possible routes into accountancy – seven years with a degree, four without – he decided to leave school and train on the job. Brought up in Wolverhampton, Rogers, now Boris Johnson’s economic development advisor, attended Wednesfield Grammar School, […]

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Colleges, are you ready for the raising of the participation age?

Increasing the minimum age at which young people in England can leave education or training is an unsettling prospect. No-one can predict with absolute certainty how the further education (FE) sector will adapt to the implementation of mandatory participation up to the age of 17 next year. The Association of Colleges (AoC) held an event […]

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Bolton celebrate with Apprentice of the Year

Bolton College held its first ever Jobs & Skills Fair to promote apprenticeships and tackle local unemployment. The event, held at the college’s £70 million Deane Road campus, celebrated National Apprenticeship Week with an Apprentice of the Year awards ceremony presented by former X-Factor contestant Laura White. Qurban Ali (left), motor vehicle apprentice of the […]

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Jason Holt takes charge of employer-led review into SMEs and apprenticeships

Social entrepreneur and jeweller Jason Holt is to head-up an employer-led review into apprenticeships. Mr Holt, CEO of Holts Group of Companies, will speak to the sector about what can be done to encourage small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to hire an apprentice. Skills minister John Hayes announced the appointment earlier today. He said: […]

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Youth unemployment on the rise despite apprenticeship initiatives

Youth unemployment rose by 22,000 in the three months leading up to December 2011, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The unemployment rate for people aged 16 to 24 rose to 22.2 per cent in the quarter, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from July to September 2011. The labour market statistics, published […]

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Commission on Youth Unemployment says more should be done to help NEETs

The ACEVO Commission on Youth Unemployment has criticised the government’s apprenticeship programme and current schemes designed to tackle youth unemployment. A new report, chaired by David Miliband MP and titled ‘Youth unemployment: The crisis we cannot afford’, says the government could be doing more to help young people who are not in education, employment or […]

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The government need to sharpen their focus

It’s great as Shadow Skills and FE Minister to celebrate this fourth annual Apprenticeships week. Looking back on Labour’s record in Government, our revitalisation of Apprenticeships remains for me one of our most substantial achievements. Lifting the number of starts from a mere 65,000 in 1996/97 to just under 280,000 was buttressed by the then […]

Opinion

Young apprenticeships fall as adults nearly double

The rise in adult apprenticeships has continued to accelerate in the first three months of the new academic year, while the number of starts aged between 16 and 18 has dropped, new data has shown. Provisional figures, published by the Data Service in the Statistical First Release (SFR) last week, show that the number of […]

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David Way, chief operating officer, National Apprenticeship Service

At 22, David Way found himself at a crossroads. Having recently completed a Masters degree, he had two job offers on the table – a graduate traineeship at the Department for Employment and an industrial relations role at an engineering firm in Peterborough. He went for the former, he says – somewhat sheepishly – on […]

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