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Movers and Shakers: Edition 179

Worthing College has announced that vice-principal Paul Riley will lead it on an interim basis — following the announcement that its principal Peter Corrigan would be leaving his post at the end of August. The move also promotes Steven Fodden, the current assistant principal, to interim vice-principal. Mr Corrigan has served the college for more […]

Movers and Shakers

Colleges’ failure to deliver with traineeships exposed

AoC blames programme design after analysis shows they’re responsible for barely a quarter of starts AELP claims independent training providers best placed to make a success of under-fire scheme Barely a quarter of traineeship starts over the past three years were with colleges, analysis by FE Week has revealed. This startlingly low figure, which was […]

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Fraudster jailed for 15 months after faking apprenticeship certificates

A man has been jailed for 15 months for defrauding New College Swindon out of almost £43,000 of Skills Funding Agency (SFA) cash — after he faked certificates that wrongly showed students had completed assessments. Leonard Hay, of Cochran Close, Churchdown, was the manager of his own one-man company Update, Training and Vocational Services (UTVS), […]

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Concern cheaper SFA dashboard is simply passing costs onto colleges

A controversial new data dashboard could cut costs incurred by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) by almost two thirds — but FE leaders fear the extra financial burden will simply fall on them. The Qualification Achievement Rate (QAR) data dashboard was branded a “fiasco” by sector bosses in an FE Week story last month, when […]

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Hundreds of AAC delegates hear latest on government’s apprenticeship reforms

FE Week’s second Annual Apprenticeship Conference (AAC) saw more than 900 delegates fill Birmingham’s International Convention Centre for three days from March 16 to 18 to hear the latest on the government’s apprenticeship reforms. With speakers including sector leaders, key civil servants, government advisers, awarding bodies and apprentices themselves, the conference covered just about every […]

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SFA to consult on a new provider register

FE providers may have to fulfil a new set of criteria in order to be approved by the government as fit to work with employers on delivering apprenticeships, FE Week has found. In the coming months, the government will hold a consultation with providers about the requirements of the Skills Funding Agency’s (SFA) register of […]

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Lessons learned over study programmes

Graham Taylor casts a weary eye over the evolution of study programmes. The study programme is now in its third year, but what have we learned? Firstly it’s a misnomer. It doesn’t all have to involve “study” — just work experience or enrichment activities. Is the marked increase in full-time learners attributable to padding out […]

Opinion

Third round of invitations to tender for long-awaited ESF contracts launched

The third round of invitations to tender for delayed European Social Fund (ESF) contracts have been published. The six local enterprise partnership (Lep) areas involved are Cumbria, New Anglia, Cheshire and Warrington, Worcestershire, Lancashire, and London. While one contract has been tendered for each of the first five Leps, a total of 28 have been issued […]

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Second wave of invitations to tender published for delayed ESF contracts

The second wave of invitations to tender for long-awaited European Social Fund (ESF) cash — this time totalling £16.2m — were published today (December 14). The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) and ESF announced today that the four local enterprise partnership areas involved were Swindon and Wiltshire, Greater Manchester, West of England, and Cornwall and Isles […]

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