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Ofsted: Eight key points from latest education recovery research

Providers told Ofsted that apprentices were not being given enough tasks due to pressures on businesses. 

News, Covid-19

‘Unit for future skills’ to launch this month

Course information for employers and learners through a new ‘unit for future skills’ will start being published this month, but will not be immediately useful.

News, Skills reform

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 385

Jenny Craig Principal & CEO, Buckinghamshire Collge Group Start date: July 2022 Previous Job: Deputy Principal, Abingdon & Witney College Interesting fact: Jenny won the West Yorkshire cycling proficiency championship when she was just 11 years old Rebecca Gater Principal & CEO, Solihull College and University Centre Start date: September 2022 Previous Job: Vice Principal- […]

Movers and Shakers

Shock as half of apprentices drop out

Expert says there would be ‘national outcry’ and independent inquiry if this happened with A-levels

News, Apprenticeships

The skills bill endgame ushers in a new age of paternalism

The skills bill brings to a head over four decades of state-ist beliefs, writes Tom Bewick The skills bill has entered the last of its parliamentary stages, known as ‘ping-pong’. This rather cute verb, like the game of table tennis, is an apt way of describing the battle of wills now under way between the […]

Opinion, Skills reform

Highlights from Annual Apprenticeships Conference 2022

Catch up on the highlights from AAC 2022 with our special souvenir supplement.

News, Supplements, Apprenticeships

Let’s have a new era of skills devolution to local leaders

Being given responsibility for the AEB has allowed City Hall to drive an increase in Londoners retraining, writes Jules Pipe The mayor’s delivery of London’s adult education budget shows how a locally driven approach can lead the way in supporting more people to get the skills they need to support the UK’s recovery. The government’s […]

Opinion, Devolution

2020/21 apprenticeship achievement rate hits 57.7% – and just 51.8% for standards

Almost half of learners on the new-style apprenticeship standards failed to successfully complete their programme last year, new figures for 2020/21 reveal. National achievement rate tables (NARTs) published this morning by the Department for Education show that the overall achievement rate for all apprenticeships increased slightly from 57.5 per cent in 2019/20 to 57.7 per […]

News, Apprenticeships

Revised 2019/20 apprenticeship achievement rates reveal huge drop

The overall achievement rate for apprenticeships in 2019/20 has fallen to 57.5 per cent – 6.7 percentage points lower than what the government had originally calculated, revised data published today has revealed. And the drop-out rate for that year on the new-style standards has increased by 13.6 percentage points from 39.8 per cent to 53.4 […]

News, Apprenticeships