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Race commission shines spotlight on apprenticeship ‘disparities’

The government’s commission on racial disparities has called for a new apprenticeship recruitment campaign “highly-targeted” at young people “facing discrimination or disadvantage”. A report published today by the commission claimed ethnic minority families have a mixture of “ignorance and prejudice” about apprenticeships. That contrasts with white families, who show “a mixture of stronger traditions of […]

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The Lowered Threshold: Our Support to You

After a challenging year for Colleges and providers, as everyone is now aware the ESFA announced that the Adult Education Budget threshold for colleges has been lowered to 90% rather than the normal threshold of at least 97% of their allocation. The reduction to 68% last year, owing to the impact of Covid-19, led to […]

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We must tackle the worrying trend in digital skills and qualifications

Our latest report reinforces findings that the digital skills gap is gendered and has regional biases, writes Emma Roberts Essential, and in demand. This is the stark message from employers about the absolute necessity of high-quality digital skills. Yet a worrying trend is emerging. While employer demand for digital skills is set to continue to […]

Opinion

Mixed response to restated public sector apprenticeship target

The government’s single-year extension to the public sector apprenticeship target has received mixed reaction from in-scope bodies. It was announced last Friday that the target of having apprentices make up 2.3 per cent of new public sector employees would be restated from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. Most sectors of the public workforce […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 348

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Judy Ling Wong Chair, Green Apprenticeships Advisory Panel, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education Start date: March 2021 Concurrent job: Honorary president, Black Environment Network Interesting fact: Vanity Fair recently gave her a ‘Challenger’ award as part of International Women’s Day for her work campaigning for […]

Movers and Shakers

DfE admits official Skills Toolkit completion data may just be starts

The Department for Education has admitted that a “completion” of a course on its Skills Toolkit may simply represent that a user has accessed learning materials. Officials have also publicly confessed for the first time that they have no idea whether users of the free online content, which has cost almost £1 million to put […]

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Level 2 apprenticeships functional skills flexibility extended – AGAIN

A flexibility that suspends the requirement for level 2 apprentices to study towards and sit a level 2 functional skills assessment has been extended again. In an update published today, the Education and Skills Funding Agency announced the funding rule would remain suspended until 31 July 2021. The agency said this “recognises the continued disruption […]

News, Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship standard achievement rate fails to hit 60%

More than two in five apprentices on standards failed to successfully complete their qualification last year. National achievement rate tables (NARTs) published this morning by the Department for Education show that the overall rate for all apprenticeships fell from 64.8 per cent in 2018/19 to 64.2 per cent in 2019/20. The data shows that apprentices […]

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The DfE has failed to work the industrial strategy into the skills white paper

It looks like the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy aren’t talking to each other, writes Graham Hasting-Evans Do you remember the “industrial strategy”? Back in 2017 the government developed an overarching economic plan spanning up to 2027. From this has flowed a number of sector industry strategies.  These industrial strategies, […]

Opinion, Skills reform