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‘apprenticeships’
BTEC and other vocational exams will still go ahead this month despite the new national lockdown restrictions, the Department for Education has confirmed tonight. The prime minister Boris Johnson announced this evening that schools and colleges will move to remote learning for most students from tomorrow and that summer exams will “not go ahead as […]
News
The outgoing FE Commissioner Richard Atkins has been knighted in the 2021 Queen’s New Year Honours. Around 30 people from the further education and skills sector have been recognised, including various top college leaders, a former chair of the Association of Colleges and a vice chair of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers. Atkins […]
Jennifer Coupland reflects on the challenges of 2020 and looks ahead to what the new year will hold for apprenticeships I recently marked my first anniversary as chief executive and could never have imagined that I would spend the vast majority of that time working from home, forever at the mercy of my Wi-Fi and […]
Opinion
A lack of regulatory powers for quality assurance providers to enforce compliance with apprentice assessment rules was a key reason for moving the job to Ofqual and the Office for Students, according to a new report. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today published its first ever ‘external quality assurance’ (EQA) annual report, […]
New incentives are needed for businesses to train their employees for a post-Covid world, writes Guglielmo Ventura With the economy still in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, workers (especially the young) in low-paid occupations continue to bear the brunt of lower earnings and redundancy. The crisis has also accelerated trends which predated the pandemic: […]
The search for a new Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education chair has begun after it was announced Antony Jenkins will be leaving next summer – almost a year earlier than planned. The government’s apprenticeship quango said today that Jenkins, who started as shadow chair in 2016 before taking on the role permanently when the […]
After a gruelling first term, college staff spill the beans on how they have dealt with a period in education like no other It has been an unprecedented time for college staff. Since the first lockdown in March they have stayed open for vulnerable learners, “bubbled” students, coped with their own health anxieties, ramped up […]
Feature, News
A chain of large training providers run by a well-known entrepreneur has collapsed amid a government investigation into their funding contracts. Four companies – MiddletonMurray, Astute Minds, Teaching and Learning Group, and FNTC Training and Consultancy – which were owned by entrepreneur and media commentator Angela Middleton, have entered administration. FE Week understands the Education […]
Ofsted has today published a summary of what they found during their final “interim visits” of colleges and training providers that took place this autumn. A total of 84 providers were visited between October 19 and December 4 – the majority of which (44, or 52 per cent), were previously judged as ‘requires improvement’. The […]
