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Learndirect aims to improve job prospects for 10,000 people

Learndirect has launched Make It Count Week to help improve the nation’s job prospects. Aiming to inspire and encourage 10,000 people to sign up to learning in the week, learndirect has teamed up with 13 partners including the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the National Apprenticeship Service, totaljobs and Centrepoint. They will be encouraging […]

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Red tape cutting too good to be true?

The Bureaucracy Busters, rated PG, coming soon to employers and training providers near you? This is the latest in the Coalition’s on-going saga of deregulation and slashing red tape (see front page). For too long vexatious bureaucracy has held back innovation; Whitehall pen-pushers have strangled professional freedoms and a culture of targets has drowned out […]

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BIS to ‘sweep away’ apprenticeship red tape for employers

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced a package of new measures today that will cut data returns and audit requirements for apprenticeship delivery, despite fraud and the misuse of funding reaching ‘a record high’ (Click here to read the BIS press release). (Click here to read FE Week’s coverage on the increase […]

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Unreachable targets put the Work Programme at risk of collapse

Almost every organisation involved in delivering the Work Programme is at risk of having their contract terminated because of unachievable performance targets set by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Social Market Foundation (SMF), a think tank which came up with the idea for the Work Programme, said that the entire scheme could […]

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Youth unemployment shows no improvement in latest quarter

The latest government statistics show that youth unemployment has changed very little in the last three months. The Labour market statistics, released today, announced that the unemployment rate for 16 to 24 year olds was up to 20.2% of the population in the three months leading to June 2011 – a small increase of 0.2 […]

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Government u-turn on college fee remission policy

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published a press release this week which says that within current budgets, colleges will be able to offer free, fully-subsidised training to learners that under existing policies would have been charged a fee. Policy changes announced in November 2010 stated that only learners on particular ‘active’ benefits, such as […]

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Foundation Degree awarding powers granted to FE colleges for the first time

Newcastle College Group and New College Durham are the first FE colleges to be granted Foundation Degree awarding powers in England. The announcement last week follows an intensive scrutiny process by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Stephen Jackson, Director of Reviews at the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) told FE Week: “After working with […]

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FE principal appointed to UKCES Board

The chief executive of Eastleigh College, Mr Tony Lau-Walker, is one of nine new members appointed to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills this week. “The diverse backgrounds and viewpoints represented by the nine new Commissioners will strengthen the Commission’s capacity to deliver skills for growth across all sectors, helping boost national productivity and […]

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Cuts in FE to ‘hit women and black and ethnic minorities hardest’

Current and planned cuts in further education will hit women and  black and ethnic minorities harder than most according to the Woman’s Leadership Network (WLN) and the Network of Black Professionals (NBP). The two organisations are so worried about the unfair effect, they have outlined their fears in a letter to the Chancellor, George Osborne. Their concerns were voiced at […]

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