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Tripling traineeships: Large colleges refuse to rise to the challenge

More than two-thirds of colleges in England chose not to run any traineeship programmes in 2018/19, FE Week can reveal. The news comes as some of the largest college groups say they have no intention to deliver the pre-employment scheme despite a significant funding rate increase and an extra £111 million to triple starts this […]

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Provider disputes £2.6m clawback following ESFA investigation

The parent company of a recently-purchased apprenticeship training provider is disputing a £2.6 million clawback and remains suspended from recruiting apprentices, FE Week can reveal. Prospects Training International, which trades as Geason Training and was bought by the Speedy group in December 2018, is challenging an Education and Skills Funding Agency investigation over alleged overpayments. […]

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‘Worrying’: University groups voice concerns over Ofsted inspections

Handing Ofsted powers to inspect degree apprenticeships is “worrying and unnecessary”, a university membership organisation has said. MillionPlus, which represents 24 “modern” universities, has expressed concern at the watchdog’s expertise to inspect the provision and called for inspectors to have mandatory HE academic employment experience in order to review university-based provision. It comes after FE […]

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Colleges and ITPs become gateway providers to Kickstart the economy

Colleges and independent FE providers have been flocking to support the government’s new Kickstart initiative by helping employers who could otherwise not take part get onto the placement scheme. FE Week spoke with the leaders of colleges and training providers to find out how they have got involved, and what benefits it holds for the […]

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A university learning experience is very different to what a typical inspector will be familiar with

Ofsted doesn’t ‘get’ higher education, says Greg Walker, and is not the right regulator for degree apprenticeship courses. Inspectors don’t understand how they work – or how they are delivered Degree apprenticeships have been a significant success of the government’s aim to improve productivity and skills. They have been embraced by modern universities with long […]

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Apprenticeships will become unprofitable if ineligible costs excluded from funding bands

The Institute for Apprenticeship and Technical Education’s new funding band proposals are a step forward, but still need to address the thorny issue of ineligible costs, writes Simon Ashworth  Consulting on funding rates for apprenticeships is a perennial but necessary hand grenade that will always prompt a lively debate.  But let’s credit the Institute for […]

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The Skills Network offer award-winning LMS at no cost

Last month, leading learning technology provider The Skills Network (TSN) announced that it will permanently offer its award-winning learning platform for free, in order to help accelerate a quality benchmark within the education and corporate sectors. After an overwhelmingly positive month, TSN has been able to on-board and help many schools, college and training providers […]

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Minister’s office breaks apprenticeship recruitment pledge

A pledge to fill all junior roles with apprentices until the end of December has already been broken by the Department for Education. Job adverts for three diary managers, who will work directly with ministers and the DfE’s permanent secretary, at executive officer level are currently live and state the roles can be filled by […]

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Victoria Copp-Crawley, principal, Ashford College

JL Dutaut meets a college leader with a healthy disregard for the academic/vocational divide When your path through life and career isn’t a straightforward one, it’s easy to be jealous of someone like the new principal of Ashford College, Victoria Copp-Crawley – someone for whom what to be ‘when you grow up’ was clear from […]

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