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Colleges aren’t expecting a bailout – they want to help with a ‘September promise’

Colleges in England look set to lose around £150 million of their income, 2 per cent of turnover, in the last term of this academic year. Most will be able to cope with that after using the government’s job retention scheme and negotiating open-book deals with key suppliers; some will need cashflow support. Next year, […]

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Free recording: Latest FE sector response and requirements to coronavirus

FE Week was joined by Labour’s new shadow apprenticeships minister Toby Perkins yesterday for our latest webinar on the response to the coronavirus pandemic for the FE and skills sector. Hot topics included the government’s supplier relief scheme for training providers as well as former education minister Andrew Adonis’ controversial comments on school and college […]

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Speed read: Highlights from our webinar with Gillian Keegan

FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan on Monday for our latest webinar on the response to the coronavirus pandemic for the FE and skills sector. Here were the main takeaway points.   ‘Anomaly’ leaving majority of apprenticeships ineligible for ESFA supplier relief The majority of apprenticeship providers are not eligible for supplier […]

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Help!: DfE to spend £10m ‘simplifying’ the digital apprenticeship service

A two-year £10 million project to renovate the digital apprenticeship service as it is scaled up is being launched by the Department for Education. The development, to start as soon as next month, will aim to “simplify processes to remove burden” by, for example, creating a new function for paying end-point assessment organisations direct. The […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 315

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Daniel Canavan, Executive Director, PM Training Start date: April 2020 Previous job: Director of Training Operations, PM Training Interesting fact: He started the very first gardening team at the provider, of which there are now more than 60 Rebecca Long Bailey MP, Shadow education secretary, Labour […]

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Lawyers claim ESFA provider relief scheme ‘unlawful’ in letter to minister

A high-profile QC has worked with solicitors to write to the apprenticeships minister, Gillian Keegan, arguing that the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s provider relief scheme is “unlawful”. James Goudie QC, a senior silk at 11KBW, as well as a deputy High Court judge and a master of the bench of the Inner Temple, was […]

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Revealed: Covid-19 hit to apprenticeship starts

The dramatic impact of the coronavirus crisis on apprentice recruitment is laid bare for the first time in a survey of over 300 providers. Responding to an FE Week request for data on the last day of April, 304 providers said they had between them planned 13,732 starts in the month but only achieved 2,693, […]

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MPs in fight to save land-based college

A cross-party group of MPs is fighting to save a land-based college they fear could be closed following the launch of an FE Commissioner review of its provision. Conservative MP Neil Hudson, who represents Penrith and the Border in Cumbria, has been joined by other local members of parliament, including former Liberal Democrat leader Tim […]

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Apprenticeship quango launches learner satisfaction survey

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today launched a new apprentice satisfaction survey. It comes a week after the Department for Education scrapped this year’s FE Choices learner satisfaction survey, which included apprentices, on the basis to do so would “reduce the impact and burden on the public during this [coronavirus] crisis”. The […]

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