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Access to post-18 opportunities is not a level playing field

Ministers must come up with a new policy to allow 18- to 24-year-olds on universal credit to access free full-time education, writes Mark Corney During the last great recession – the financial crash of 2008 – many young people shielded themselves from a collapsing jobs market through participating in full-time education. The same is happening […]

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Digital skills bootcamps: What are they and how will they work?

The digital skills bootcamps announced with the prime minister’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee could lead to adult education budget provision being elbowed aside by training paid for through the National Skills Fund. A total of £8 million is being spent on the short courses in IT subjects such as cloud services, digital for advanced manufacturing and […]

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Skills minister ‘hopeful’ free level 3 quals will be revealed next month

The skills minister has said she is “hopeful” the list of free, first, full level 3 qualifications being funded as part of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee will be published next month.  Speaking at an FE Week roundtable today, Gillian Keegan was asked when providers and learners can find out which courses they could start from […]

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£100m pilot integrated into £2.5bn National Skills Fund

The government’s national retraining scheme pilot has been rolled into the national skills fund, Gillian Keegan announced today. In a ministerial statement, the skills minister said the decision to amalgamate the two programmes was taken in order to “reduce complexity” in the adult education landscape. The retraining scheme was first announced in the 2017 Budget […]

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Queen’s Birthday Honours: Who received what in FE?

A former college principal who championed further education and skills as a member of Parliament has been knighted in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours.  Nic Dakin, who represented Scunthorpe from 2010 to 2019 after having run Sir John Leggott College in the city, is one of 20 FE and skills figures to have been recognised.  […]

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Dig beneath the surface of the government’s skills announcement and it’s unambitious

The government is deploying a solutions-as-you-go approach, instead of a proper national network for employment and training, writes Kirstie Donnelly It certainly feels like the government is waking up to the potential of technical and skills-based education. But dig underneath the surface of these announcements and they feel slightly unambitious and limited in their scope […]

Opinion

Too little, too late, Johnson’s speech takes FE back to 2013

The prime minister’s announcement lacks urgency and fails to bring enough money forward to this year, writes Toby Perkins The prime minister’s recent discovery of the merits of FE is superficially attractive but as we’ve learnt with this PM, things aren’t always as they seem. His announcement lacked both the pace to address the immediate […]

Opinion

Popular apprenticeship scrapped by government could be revived

Plans are afoot to revive the level 2 business administration apprenticeship under a new name, FE Week can reveal. A group, led by representatives in local councils and the health sector, last week held an online meeting with around 100 different employers, such as police forces and charities, to sound out support for the bid. […]

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Traineeships tender finally launched but with short deadline

Training providers have been given less than three weeks to bid in the government’s much-anticipated tender for 19 to 24 traineeship funding. The Education and Skills Funding Agency yesterday launched an “accelerated” bidding process worth an initial £65 million to expand the provider-base for adult traineeships. A deadline of 28 October has been set for […]

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