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Why urgent support is needed to address UK skills deficit

New incentives are needed for businesses to train their employees for a post-Covid world, writes Guglielmo Ventura With the economy still in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, workers (especially the young) in low-paid occupations continue to bear the brunt of lower earnings and redundancy. The crisis has also accelerated trends which predated the pandemic: […]

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Hunt underway for new IfATE chair after incumbent announces early departure

The search for a new Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education chair has begun after it was announced Antony Jenkins will be leaving next summer – almost a year earlier than planned. The government’s apprenticeship quango said today that Jenkins, who started as shadow chair in 2016 before taking on the role permanently when the […]

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‘We will not be the same because of this’: How colleges coped with Covid

After a gruelling first term, college staff spill the beans on how they have dealt with a period in education like no other It has been an unprecedented time for college staff. Since the first lockdown in March they have stayed open for vulnerable learners, “bubbled” students, coped with their own health anxieties, ramped up […]

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High-profile FE figure sees companies go bust amid ESFA investigations

A chain of large training providers run by a well-known entrepreneur has collapsed amid a government investigation into their funding contracts. Four companies – MiddletonMurray, Astute Minds, Teaching and Learning Group, and FNTC Training and Consultancy – which were owned by entrepreneur and media commentator Angela Middleton, have entered administration. FE Week understands the Education […]

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Ofsted reveals key findings from final FE interim visits

Ofsted has today published a summary of what they found during their final “interim visits” of colleges and training providers that took place this autumn. A total of 84 providers were visited between October 19 and December 4 – the majority of which (44, or 52 per cent), were previously judged as ‘requires improvement’. The […]

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Second pilot phase of skills boot camps launched ahead of national rollout

The government’s skills “boot camps” have moved into their second pilot phase ahead of plans for a countrywide rollout backed by £43 million from the new National Skills Fund. Colleges and training providers began recruiting earlier this month for the next set of the 12- to 16-week courses, which have been expanded to tackle not […]

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£125m promised FE funding delayed

Promised investment in skills training has been questioned after FE Week discovered £125 million of FE funding has been delayed by at least a year. The Conservative Party manifesto pledged a new National Skills Fund (NSF) with £500 million being made available in each of the next five years in England from 2021/22, but last […]

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Behind the news: How a company illegally marketed a 14-day ‘apprenticeship’, and what happened next

As most in the sector will know, calling a training programme an “apprenticeship” if it is not government-backed became illegal under the Enterprise Act 2016. Then skills minister Nick Boles said at the time it would give officials power to take action in such cases as “we don’t want their status to be undermined by […]

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Third apprenticeship rate consultation as ESFA considers changes to eligible cost rules

The current apprenticeships rate review is set to undergo its third consultation as the Education and Skills Funding Agency steps in to consider changes to its eligible costs policy. The agency is expected to launch a review of its rules that decide what costs count towards apprenticeship training tomorrow – inviting 600 organisation to take […]

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