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FE has some of the most diverse classrooms around and should be setting an example when it comes to representation, writes Teresa Carroll Teaching and learning at its best should reflect the diversity of our learners’ worlds. Covid-19 has brought into focus the disparity in learners’ experiences from a social and economic perspective. Meanwhile, movements […]
Opinion
Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. John Cope, Non-executive board member, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education Start date: November 2020 Concurrent job: Director of strategy, policy and public affairs, UCAS Interesting fact: He once backpacked from one side of Mexico to the other Dayle Bayliss, Non-executive board member, Institute for Apprenticeships […]
Movers and Shakers
Government efforts to increase apprenticeship take-up by black, Asian and minority ethnic young people have been slammed as a “national disgrace”. New FE Week analysis shows that the proportion of BAME 16- to 18-year-old apprentices is falling and made up just 7.7 per cent of starts in the first three-quarters of 2019/20, compared to over […]
News
The Department for Education could be forced to hand back up to £80 million to the Treasury after closing the national retraining scheme pilot, FE Week has learned. Skills minister Gillian Keegan last week announced that the retraining scheme would be “integrated” into the new £2.5 billion national skills fund to “reduce complexity” in the […]
The government has been urged by their own researchers to stump up funding for assessing prior learning in apprenticeships, after providers were found to be struggling with the financial viability of complying with the rule. It comes as the Department for Education launches a recruitment drive for three new apprenticeship compliance officers, who will focus […]
Two well-known sector leaders have been appointed as the new co-chairs of the Federation of Awarding Bodies. Kirstie Donnelly, chief executive of the City & Guilds Group, and Alan Woods, chief executive of the Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT), will take up the posts at the membership organisation’s next annual general meeting on 8 December. […]
The British Army has been named the best apprentice employer in England in a new list of ‘Top 100 Apprentice Employers’ published by the government. The Department for Education today released the list, which includes Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in the second-place spot, ahead of the Royal Navy, BT, and MTR Elizabeth Line which is constructing the […]
A major business representative group has called on the government to end its “failed experiment” of the apprenticeship levy. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) made the demand in its ‘Learning for life: Funding a world-class adult education system’ report, released today, which says nine in ten people will need new skills by 2030. Many […]
Ministers must come up with a new policy to allow 18- to 24-year-olds on universal credit to access free full-time education, writes Mark Corney During the last great recession – the financial crash of 2008 – many young people shielded themselves from a collapsing jobs market through participating in full-time education. The same is happening […]
