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300 redundancies planned at England’s largest apprenticeship provider

England’s largest apprenticeship provider is planning to slash around 300 jobs as it battles with “significantly reduced” learner numbers caused by Covid-19, FE Week can reveal. The move by Lifetime Training Group will see its workforce drop by up to a quarter. Chief executive Alex Khan said that historically his provider has averaged around 1,800 […]

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Second round of ESFA Covid-19 supplier relief attracts 112 provider bids

Just 112 providers applied for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s second Covid-19 supplier relief scheme – and 35 of those were colleges. The majority of bids – 70 – were to claim apprenticeship support only, while 14 applications went in just for adult education budget (AEB) relief. A total of 28 submissions were for […]

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ESFA plan traineeship funding tender despite history of tendering woes

The Education and Skills Funding Agency is to launch a tender to “quickly” widen the provider base for adult traineeships despite a recent history of botched procurements. It follows chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement that the government is to invest £111 million to triple the number of people taking part in the pre-employment programme as part […]

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Nine things we learned from the ESFA’s 2019-20 annual report and accounts

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has this afternoon published its annual report and accounts for 2019-20, revealing college loan write-offs, hefty fraud investigation costs and salary boosts for top civil servants. FE Week has the main findings:   1. College keeps £15m in overpayments During the last financial year, South Thames College received an […]

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DfE offers £96m grant for 16-19 tutoring after Covid catch-up fund U-turn

The government has U-turned on its decision to exclude 16 to 19 providers from its £1 billion Covid catch-up fund. A one-off, ring-fenced grant of up to £96 million will be stumped up to provide “small group tutoring” for disadvantaged 16 to 19 students whose studies have been disrupted by the pandemic. Prime minister Boris […]

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Apprenticeship assessment ‘flexibilities’ to stay until at least January

Special measures that have led to more than 100 apprenticeship standards gaining permission to carry out end-point assessments remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic will be retained into the new year. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education’s chief executive Jennifer Coupland announced today that the flexibilities will continue until at least the start of 2021. […]

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Labour: Ney report exposes ministerial unawareness of financial crisis ‘engulfing’ colleges

Dame Mary Ney’s report into college financial oversight exposes a “decade of austerity” and a lack of ministerial awareness of the financial crisis “engulfing” the FE sector, Labour’s shadow apprenticeships minister has said. Toby Perkins added that the failure in oversight has been “exacerbated by the Tory cuts to the civil service”. He was responding […]

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DfE to run awareness campaign as part of ‘major’ reforms to higher technical qualifications

A new public awareness campaign to boost the popularity of higher technical education is to be launched by government as ministers confirm plans for “major” reform in this area. As first announced by former education secretary Damian Hinds in 2018, the Department for Education is planning to overhaul qualifications at levels 4 and 5. Following […]

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Life support for traineeships – but what exactly are they?

The flagging traineeships programme was given a new lease of life by the government this week with a major funding boost to help combat youth unemployment post-Covid-19. But what exactly are traineeships and how are they run? FE Week has spoken with providers, employers and a former skills minister to find out… Chancellor Rishi Sunak […]

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