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Gavin Williamson’s speech on FE reform: The full text

Hello. It is a great pleasure to be here with you today and I’d like to thank not only the Social Market Foundation for hosting this, but also you for joining me. We have all been busy, in different ways, dealing with the impact of COVID-19. The way people live, the jobs people have, in […]

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Government to reveal plans this autumn to create an employer led ‘German-style’ FE system

Education secretary Gavin Williamson will today pledge that the upcoming White Paper for further education will lead to a reformed “world-class, German-style” system. In a speech hosted by the Social Market Foundation, Williamson will say that “for decades, we have failed to give FE the investment it deserves” as he “tears up” the symbolic target […]

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‘Kickstarter’ young employees cannot also be apprentices, Treasury confirms

Young people who take part in the government’s £2 billion “kickstart” scheme cannot also be apprentices, the Treasury has confirmed. Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirmed in his summer statement today that the government will pay the wages of “hundreds of thousands” of people aged 16 to 24 who are claiming universal credit to take six-month work […]

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Chancellor announces ‘brand-new bonus for businesses to hire apprentices’

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a “brand new bonus” for employers to hire apprentices over the next six months. From August to January, any firm that hires a new young apprentice aged 16 to 24 will receive £2,000, while those that hire new apprentices aged 25 and over will be paid £1,500. Announcing the incentives […]

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DfE scraps T-level subject after employers express ‘viability and deliverability concerns’

The rollout of T-levels has taken another slip after the government canned a subject and delayed the start of two others by a year. Cultural, heritage and visitor attractions (CHVA) has been removed altogether by the Department for Education after the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education reported that there was “insufficient employer demand” for […]

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Chancellor expected to reveal sliding scale of employer cash incentives to boost apprenticeships

The chancellor is set to announce a sliding scale of cash incentives for employers to take on both young and adult apprentices in his summer statement today, FE Week understands. Firms are expected to receive more for taking on under 25s. Rishi Sunak is due to provide the details this afternoon as he unveils his […]

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Treasury’s £111m traineeship boost is a giant leap forward

The proposed tripling of traineeship starts with a £111 million boost is perhaps the brightest piece of news for skills since the pandemic began, writes mark Dawe We may be kickstarting traineeships from a modest base, but a multiple of ten being applied to the budget for the adult cohort (18-24) is definitely a giant […]

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Provider shuts its doors to hundreds of young engineering apprentices

A training provider has laid off all 30 staff and shut its door to hundreds of young engineering apprentices, FE Week can reveal. West Yorkshire-based Kirkdale Industrial Training Services Limited (KITS), an Ofsted grade 2 registered charity that is more than 50 years old, informed their staff and the government of the decision to close […]

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Speed read: New rules for subcontracting starting from 2020/21

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has set out the measures it will take to “significantly” reduce subcontracting in further education over the next three years. Headline actions to tackle “poor oversight and fraud” include a cap on the volume of subcontracted provision, a new national “standard” all providers will have to meet, “acting on […]

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