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Gillian Keegan has been named as the new apprenticeships and skills minister. She joined the Department for Education as a parliamentary under secretary of state on Friday following Boris Johnson’s reshuffle. Her title was confirmed this evening along with all ministerial portfolios. It is not clear at this stage, however, if she will be responsible […]
News
With the budget less than a month away, and the prime minister confirming the apprenticeship levy needs reform, there are signs that the government could quickly revisit the original tax credit recommendation from 2012. Education select committee chair Robert Halfon has called for the policy to be introduced on numerous occasions over the past year. […]
The crisis hit National College for HS2 has hired a team of lawyers to stop Ofsted publishing a highly critical report, FE Week can reveal. The government-backed flagship college launched in 2017 but has struggled to recruit learners and this time last year received close to £5 million in a bailout deal to keep the […]
One college and one private provider lost their ‘outstanding’ grades in a mixed week for the FE sector. Gateshead College dropped two grades to ‘requires improvement’ due to poor leadership and management and apprenticeship provision, as reported by this newspaper last week. But its report, published today, shows it is still rated ‘outstanding’ in its […]
As an employer of apprentices that has made full use of the levy, I have sometimes found it difficult to understand why more levy-paying businesses haven’t taken advantage of the levy reforms, says Sharon Blyfield Towards the end of last summer, the number of registrations on the apprenticeship service suddenly jumped to nearly 20,000, which […]
Opinion
The Department for Education is to cut the budget for adult traineeships by more than half from August 2020. In a letter seen by FE Week, dated 5 February and marked “sensitive”, it states that the 19 to 24 traineeship remains a national programme and the budget has been revised from £20 million to £8.55 […]
Ofsted has been forced to revise a published inspection report after being made aware it was missing both apprenticeship and adult course grades and commentary. Peter Symonds College teaches around 4,200 young people aged 16 to 19 and was rated ‘outstanding’ across the board in a report published by the education watchdog last week. But […]
Michelle Donelan has been appointed as the new universities minister – and has not ruled out also taking on the FE and skills brief. The MP for Chippenham has been covering for Kemi Badenoch as children and families parliamentary under secretary of state, with some responsibilities for FE, while she has been on maternity leave. […]
Gavin Williamson is to stay on as education secretary following a post-Brexit ministerial reshuffle. However, it’s not known whether the MP for South Staffordshire will keep the FE and skills brief he has held since his appointment last July. Many calls, including from Conservative MPs, have been made for prime minister Boris Johnson to appoint […]
