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Could better investment in skills derail future train strikes?

Training and upskilling opportunities are an important way to improve job satisfaction and retention in essential jobs, writes Kirstie Donnelly Last week’s rail strikes highlighted many critical issues facing workers in our transport sector, with trade union RMT calling for better pay, better working conditions and the guarantee of no forced redundancy. But they aren’t […]

Opinion

Collaboration between AELP, AoC and HOLEX is hugely important

The resilience of FE will be tested in the year ahead. Here are five key takeaways from our recent national conference, writes Jane Hickie AELP’s first in-person national conference in three years took place this week. Among the packed agenda, we learned a lot from the two-day event. Here’s five key takeaways from me: 1. […]

Opinion

AELP conference highlights: Leaders talk funding rate review, the levy and staffing crisis

Ofsted, AoC, IfATE and CBI among speakers at AELP conference

News, Apprenticeships, Ofsted, Pay

Lifetime Training’s grade 3 Ofsted report published

Inspectors criticise focus on financial performance and starts over quality

News, Apprenticeships

NEET 16: Out of work and training 16-year-olds at highest level in nearly a decade

Number of 16-year-olds not in education, employment or training highest since 2012

News, NEET

Ofsted to hit England’s largest apprenticeship provider with grade 3

Quality concerns found at Lifetime Training, which delivers to big-name employers and the civil service

News, Apprenticeships, Ofsted

New ‘method’ to quality assuring higher and degree-level apprenticeships launched

It is part of the second phase of reforms to how EQA works for end-point assessment

News, Apprenticeships, Higher education

Keith Smith to leave DfE to become London college boss

He has been a top skills civil servant for a decade

News

Lord Mike Watson, shadow education minister

Having become an MP in 1989, Lord Mike Watson has spent many years in frustrating opposition for the Labour Party. As he steps down as shadow education minister in the Lords, he offers words of advice for his successors It’s not often you sit in a grand, wood-panelled room in the heart of Westminster, and […]

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