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Apprenticeship starts for the whole of 2019/20 fell 18 per cent on the previous academic year, new figures show. Provisional data published this morning by the Department for Education has revealed there were a total of 319,200 starts last year compared to 389,000 in 2018/19. A drop was to be expected owing to impact that […]
News
If the prime minister is serious about skills, he needs to take these agreed actions from our latest roundtable, writes David Phoenix The prime minister’s speech on further and higher education this week and the forthcoming FE white paper present a huge opportunity to grow post-16 technical education. But growing technical education requires local and […]
Opinion
This week the Department for Education was thrown in to the back seat as the prime minister grabbed the steering wheel and pushed his foot hard on the FE reform accelerator. A press release from Number 10 confidently announced a new “lifetime skills guarantee” would launch for courses starting next April, just six months from […]
There are many reasons to – for me I should say – to come here to Exeter College – the outstanding Further Education College in Devon. You have a total of 462 courses – some which I tried this morning – from particle physics to cake decorating. And you offer your students an extraordinary chance […]
Adults over the age of 23 in England without a full level 3 qualification will be offered one for free from April, prime minister Boris Johnson is set to announce. The policy to extend full funding to all eligible adults was a recommendation in Philip Augar’s review of post-18 education published 15 months ago and […]
An independent training provider in Birmingham has entered insolvency after Covid-19 reduced the company’s income to a point that “it was no longer in a position to continue trading”. GB Training (UK) Ltd, which offers apprenticeships and is also an adult education budget provider for the West Midlands Combined Authority, has announced on its website […]
JL Dutaut meets a new principal and CEO who loves the stage but doesn’t make a song and dance of her successes It takes all sorts to keep an education system performing. Some like the daily grind of incremental improvement. Others like the long-haul commitment to a community. For Carol Thomas, it’s all about the […]
Profiles
As the government rolls out the national retraining scheme, a publicity drive is needed to promote adult learning, writes Ann Marie Spry The UK education system emphasises younger people, with the majority of funding directed towards pre-18 compulsory education, and the immediate post-18 education the next most supported. We can see this reflected in the […]
Pilots of Ofsted’s autumn visits suggest that the FE and skills sector is more than rising to the challenges of these highly unusual times, writes Paul Joyce In July we announced that we would be carrying out visits across all the areas we inspect this Autumn – schools, further education and skills, early years and […]
