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Apprenticeships and skills minister Gillian Keegan has today written to independent providers and other non-college stakeholders in an effort to address their concerns following the coronavirus outbreak. Read the letter in full below. Dear Colleagues, I wanted to write to you and thank you for all of your hard work and continued commitment during […]
News
The government has celebrated nearly tripling the interest in apprenticeships after spending more than £1 million on the release of a grime song as part of its Fire It Up campaign. FE Week can reveal the unusual partnership between a YouTube entrepreneur, rapper and the Department for Education (DfE) cost £542,009.65 to deliver, with an […]
This evening the apprenticeships and skills minister, Gillian Keegan, wrote to all FE and sixth form colleges in England. Read the letter in full below, or download it from here. Dear Colleagues, I wanted to take the time to write to you and thank you for all of your hard work and continued commitment during […]
In the face of the global pandemic, there is a great deal for the UK’s awarding industry to be proud of, writes Tom Bewick Awarding organisations and endpoint assessment organisations have been hit badly by coronavirus. Our bread and butter, as thriving knowledge-based organisations, are about serving the qualifications and assessment needs of thousands of […]
Opinion
A leading apprentice assessment organisation has told FE Week they are already experiencing “significant cancellations” following the coronavirus outbreak. A spokesperson for Highfield Group, one of the busiest end-point assessment organisations (EPAO) that is approved for 38 apprenticeship standards, said the cancellations were mainly as a result of employers restricting site access to visitors, as […]
Ministers have been urged to guarantee training providers’ income and for the Department for Education to relax funding rules during the Covid-19 outbreak. Association of Employment and Learning Providers chief executive Mark Dawe has asked officials to honour non-levy and other funding contracts, including European Social Fund and subcontracts regardless of performance. He also called […]
The awarding bodies designing the first three T-levels have called on the government to delay their rollout by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, FE Week can reveal. Pearson and NCFE have agreed with the Federation of Awarding Bodies that their launch should be combined with wave two and begin in September 2021 instead […]
Independent training providers should close their doors from Friday afternoon until further notice like schools and colleges, the apprenticeships and skills minister has confirmed. However, if a provider is going out to employers’ premises, if they are still allowed to, then this can continue alongside remote training and development. Department for Education minister Gillian Keegan […]
All colleges in England are “expected” to close from Friday as the government steps up its attempts to contain the coronavirus. GCSE and A-level exams will also not take place as planned in May and June. Education secretary Gavin Williamson made the announcements in the House of Commons this afternoon, where he committed to continue […]
