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Apprenticeship assessment ‘flexibilities’ to stay until at least January

Special measures that have led to more than 100 apprenticeship standards gaining permission to carry out end-point assessments remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic will be retained into the new year. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education’s chief executive Jennifer Coupland announced today that the flexibilities will continue until at least the start of 2021. […]

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Labour: Ney report exposes ministerial unawareness of financial crisis ‘engulfing’ colleges

Dame Mary Ney’s report into college financial oversight exposes a “decade of austerity” and a lack of ministerial awareness of the financial crisis “engulfing” the FE sector, Labour’s shadow apprenticeships minister has said. Toby Perkins added that the failure in oversight has been “exacerbated by the Tory cuts to the civil service”. He was responding […]

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DfE to run awareness campaign as part of ‘major’ reforms to higher technical qualifications

A new public awareness campaign to boost the popularity of higher technical education is to be launched by government as ministers confirm plans for “major” reform in this area. As first announced by former education secretary Damian Hinds in 2018, the Department for Education is planning to overhaul qualifications at levels 4 and 5. Following […]

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Life support for traineeships – but what exactly are they?

The flagging traineeships programme was given a new lease of life by the government this week with a major funding boost to help combat youth unemployment post-Covid-19. But what exactly are traineeships and how are they run? FE Week has spoken with providers, employers and a former skills minister to find out… Chancellor Rishi Sunak […]

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Treasury took back £330m of apprenticeships funding in 19-20

The Department for Education quietly handed back £330 million of the 2019-20 apprenticeships budget to the Treasury, FE Week can reveal. The admission comes despite concerns that small employers had struggled to find providers with sufficient non-levy funds to train their apprentices, with some being turned away. Mark Dawe, chief executive of the Association of […]

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HS2 college at risk of insolvency seeks partner

The national college for HS2 is on the hunt for a provider to partner with following a grade four Ofsted report and warnings from the FE Commissioner it was facing “potential insolvency”. The National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure (NCATI) told FE Week it was “working through a shortlisting process for a new partner” […]

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Providers ‘seriously concerned’ that Kickstart will displace apprenticeships

Training providers are “seriously concerned” that wage subsidies as part of the new £2.5 billion Kickstart scheme will displace apprenticeship starts for young people. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that the government will pay the wages of “hundreds of thousands” of people aged 16 to 24 who are claiming Universal Credit to take newly […]

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Disappointing: Sunak’s skills package dodges the issues

The measures announced this week by the chancellor fail to address the key skills challenges the government faces, writes Toby Perkins The scale of the threat to our crucial apprenticeship and FE sector is severe. The Association of Employment and Learning Providers warns that learning providers could close their doors, with FE colleges consulting on […]

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Colleges should seize ‘digital renewal’ to reimagine the student experience for the new normal

With online enrolment and hybrid learning environments set to become ‘the new norm’ from September 2020, students are left wondering, will the Student Experience ever be the same again? We asked colleges, current student cohorts, the Association of Colleges, and Blueprint Education Services for their views…   Accelerating the rate of digital change Colleges have […]

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