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Apprenticeship levy funding: the truth is out there

A major problem for apprenticeship levy watchers and commentators is that the government not only refuses to share spending data – it is failing to properly explain how the policy works. As a result, this week a national newspaper was persuaded by an organisation with vested interests to report that the policy was  “wasteful”, claiming […]

Opinion

Banned: 9 firms join the ‘suspended’ list on the apprenticeships register

Peterborough Skills Limited has become the latest apprenticeships provider to be banned from taking on new starts after being reprimanded by Ofsted. FE Week analysis shows the east of England-based firm is one of nine providers to have been slapped with suspensions on the register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP) in the past 12 months, […]

News, Apprenticeships

Loans provider slammed for accepting ‘identical’ learner work

A new FE loans provider where tutors accept suspected copy-and-paste assignments from learners has been slammed by Ofsted. Inspectors warned that a significant amount of written work submitted by different students at London Cactus Limited is “identical”. Tutors “accept the work at face value, without verifying that learners have completed the work themselves”. Ofsted also […]

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Welsh online-only apprenticeship provider censured by Ofsted

A Wales-based provider that trains apprentices in England exclusively online has been rapped by Ofsted. Cognitia Consulting, headquartered in south Wales, scored two ‘insufficient progress’ ratings in a new provider monitoring visit report published on Monday. Since 2018, the independent provider has delivered the safety, health and environmental technician apprenticeship and is one of the […]

News, Ofsted

The Queen’s Speech is welcome – but passing legislation is only the first step

Following the Queen’s Speech, there are a number of issues to keep an eye on when the Skills Bill arrives, writes Aveek Bhattacharya In one sense, not much has changed in terms of government FE and adult education policy as a result of the Queen’s speech. Last July, in a speech to the Social Market […]

Opinion

Use Ofsted and ESFA to slow apprenticeship provider growth if things are going wrong

Restrict the funding new apprenticeship providers can initially access and use recognised milestones to help prevent failure, writes Jane Hickie The Skills for Jobs white paper was a good opportunity to run a stock-take on where we are in terms of protecting apprentices and other learners in the FE system when things go wrong. It […]

Opinion

College forced to close following Covid-19 outbreak

A college has been forced to close its campus following an outbreak of Covid-19, involving the so-called “Indian variant”, and has moved its provision online for the next ten days. Runshaw College told staff and students yesterday to stay home until 17 May following talks with Public Health England. The Lancashire Post news website is […]

News, Covid-19

ESFA boss threatens to put scandal hit college into administration

A college is being threatened with education administration following a £20 million apprenticeship subcontracting scandal, FE Week understands. Brooklands College has failed to file accounts for the past two years amid an ongoing clawback dispute with the Education and Skills Funding Agency and budgetary pressures. Andrew Baird, one of the government’s paid national leaders of […]

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Ofsted slams safeguarding failings at apprenticeship giant

One of England’s largest training providers has been rapped by Ofsted for serious safeguarding failures in its early years provision. The watchdog also claims the company, part of a global venture capital firm incorporated in the US, is under investigation by another agency. Ofsted’s announced safeguarding inspection of GP Strategies Training took place in February […]

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