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Figures published this morning show that the number of apprenticeship starts aged 25 and above has more than tripled, to 175,500 in 2010/11. Provisional figures in the October 2011 Statistical First Release (SFR) show that whilst the number 0f 25+ increased by over 250% (from 49,100 to 175,500), all age apprenticeships starts increased 58% from 279,700 in 2009/10 […]
News
The government’s Data Service promised to publish apprenticeship recruitment figures for 2010/11 today at 9.30am. They did not disappoint, and in the spirit of all things short, within eight minutes FE Week published their analysis of the figures (click here). Whilst the supplementary tables show the number of 16 year-olds starting apprenticeships rose just 1% from […]
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The number of apprenticephip starts aged 25 and above is expected to soar in the latest Statistical First Release (SFR) due next Thursday. Based on the June 2011 SFR, if the same number of starts in February to April 2010 are repeated in May to July 2011, more than 50,000 will have started taking the full […]
Young people alarmed by the recent spike in youth unemployment can take advantage of expert advice on entering the world of work when Harlow College plays host to Essex’s first-ever apprenticeship fair today (Monday). The unique event – which takes place inside the college’s new University Centre Harlow building – will give would-be apprentices the […]
Bulletin
Harlow MP Robert Halfon has appointed a second apprentice to work in his House of Commons office. Louis Luck, who studied history, politics and religious studies at A level and achieved ABC in his final exams, follows in the footsteps of Andy Huckle, who was the first-ever MP’s apprentice. Mr Halfon said: “Since I was […]
Alison Wolf says she had “no intention of having anything to do with education.” In fact, when she left university in the early 1970s, she was destined for a career in journalism, having secured a job on the Daily Mail’s money pages. But she never made it to the newsroom; her husband was offered a […]
Profiles
World famous chef, Marco Pierre White, impressed and intrigued Hospitality students at Chichester College with stories of his rise within the industry. His calm and measured attitude had students on the edge of their seats to note stern words of advice and inspirational anecdotes. Marco said: “Luck gives the opportunity and it’s the awareness of […]
Janet Murray is a freelance education journalist, writing mainly for The Guardian and well as FE Week and the TES. Jan has been freelancing for ten years. She said: “I found I was getting really busy and having to turn down work, no self employed person wants to do that. “I thought about hiring a […]
WorldSkills has been and gone, all the hype, the advertising, the supplements, the drum banging… and now the silence is deafening. Colleges try to whip up support from the media, but it’s short lived, the energy dissipates like the steam from the industry-standard hair straighteners once used to style a winner. The skills circus has […]
