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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 […]
Opinion
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 […]
News
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 […]
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Growing up in England’s industrial heartland of the Midlands, Jaine Bolton’s childhood dream was a simple one — to become an engineer. But, having left school aged 16 with hopes of winning an apprenticeship, her world came crashing down as one potential employer told her bluntly: “We don’t recruit women.” The rejection, and growing up […]
Profiles
A Kent college has become the first provider to get a government warning that could lead to the withdrawal of Skills Funding Agency cash, FE Week can reveal. Financial worries were said to be behind an agency official notice of concern, issued to K College in August. The college was allocated £11.7m for the 2012/13 […]
While searching for biographical information about David Igoe to prepare for the interview I reap little reward. Google coughs up only a few facts – the name of his secondary school, his degree in education management at the University of Bristol and his job as principal at Cadbury Sixth Form College. At Igoe’s office in […]
More than 500 jobs have been saved by a college and a training provider after another training provider behind around 10,000 apprenticeships across the country went into administration. Liverpool Community College teamed up with Derbyshire-based provider 3AAA to buy the “majority” of business from First4Skills. The Ellesmere Port firm had been allocated £19.8m by the Skills […]
Caption: Sunderland College students are getting the benefits of joined up administration among members of the North East Shared Services Project. Organisations coming together to develop services that can be shared, including teaching and learning as well as office systems, are a year into their projects. The 157 Group and Association of Colleges (AoC) were […]
