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Staff need to know about the Apprenticeships Workforce Development programme

Whether an assessor, a leader or a governor, staff involved with apprenticeships now have a new route through which to skill up, writes David Russell National Apprenticeship Week is always a fantastic boost for everyone who works in that field. The following week can feel a bit of a downer, though, like the morning after […]

Opinion

National Apprenticeship Week 2021 | Supplement

Download our special supplement showcasing National Apprenticeship Week 2021, published in partnership with NCFE. It has been a year like no other for apprenticeships which, like so many parts of the employment and training sector, have taken a substantial hit from the coronavirus pandemic. Official Department for Education data shows there were 60,860 apprenticeship starts […]

News, Supplements, Apprenticeships

Association of Apprentices launches to support trainees and boost retention

An Association of Apprentices has been launched in an effort to help boost the number of the work-based trainees staying on and completing their course. The new support network for apprentices was founded by the government’s apprenticeship ambassador Jason Holt, former Lord Mayor of the City of London Sir Peter Estlin and a co-founder of […]

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Re-apply – again! Anger as ESFA tells providers to make fresh RoATP application

Training providers were left “appalled” this week after the Education and Skills Funding Agency made the “ridiculous” decision that all who are on RoATP will need to re-apply yet again. “They just don’t get what we are going through, do they?” was how one managing director of an independent provider reacted, while a college principal […]

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Ofsted parks new provider monitoring visits

New provider monitoring visits have been delayed indefinitely by Ofsted. The inspectorate previously said it would restart the visits from January face-to-face but later announced they would be conducted remotely until at least the February half-term in light of the third national lockdown. The virtual monitoring visits to providers that are new to delivering apprenticeships […]

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Apprenticeships are a crucial vehicle for tackling worsening Covid inequalities

We need to be creating a seamless pipeline towards higher-level apprenticeships, writes Cindy Rampersaud Recognising National Apprenticeship Week is more important than ever before this year. As we begin to look towards reopening both the economy and society, we need to consider how we will offer opportunities to those who have been most impacted by […]

Opinion

Combined and local authorities must have a role in the government’s skills plan

The skills white paper must create a coherent system but local authorities are needed to provide the links and oversight, write Ruth Lupton and Stephanie Thomson Andy Norman was right. At the end of January the research analyst at the Centre for Progressive Policy argued in these pages it’s “risky business to have an employer-dominated […]

Opinion, Skills reform

Former FE lecturer turned MP appointed new Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network chair

A Conservative MP who worked as a further education lecturer for 20 years has been appointed chair of the government’s Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network during National Apprenticeships Week. Lia Nici, who represents Great Grimsby, will take responsibility for shaping objectives for the network of 88 companies, with the Education and Skills Funding Agency. Nici, who […]

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All apprenticeship providers told to reapply to RoATP yet again

All providers on the government’s register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP) will need to reapply yet again over the course of the next year as plans for another “refresh” are unveiled. The Education and Skills Funding Agency published further details today about the next phase of register which has been closed to new applicants since […]

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