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A major energy firm was among six training providers to be rated ‘good’ by Ofsted in a positive week for the sector. SSE Services PLC, the national utility company which providers energy to nine million households, kept its ‘good’ rating following a short inspection. The employer provider has just over 150 apprentices who “benefit from […]
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This week two powerful advocates of the further education sector were appointed to influential roles within Whitehall. On Monday, the former skills minister and Conservative MP Robert Halfon was reappointed to chair the education select committee. Halfon is widely and rightly regarded as having done a good job in the chair for the past two […]
Opinion
The new chief executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has given her backing to scarce levy funding being spent on controversial management qualifications. Jennifer Coupland also stood up for the employers that the quango represents, warning the Treasury and Department for Education that the £2 billion budget “is not government money, it […]
The apprenticeship levy could be in for a shake-up, following the appointment of Baroness Alison Wolf to the policy unit at Number 10 to advise the Prime Minister on skills. In early July 2015 the Social Market Foundation published a report authored by Wolf, entitled Fixing a Broken Training System: The case for an apprenticeship […]
One in ten 15 to 18-year-olds are being encouraged to take up an apprenticeship by their schoolteachers, a new YouGov survey has revealed. The research was commissioned by training provider JTL ahead of National Apprenticeship Week, which starts on Monday, February 3. It found that 73 per cent of students reported that the most likely […]
Awarding bodies are being invited to develop qualifications for wave three of the T-levels programme, which is due to be delivered from September 2022. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education today opened up a £35 million tender for eight qualifications, based on three routes: legal, finance and accounting; engineering and manufacturing; and business and […]
The government and business lobby groups need to get their act together when it comes to both immigration and skills, says the Confederation of British Industry’s former head of education and skills, John Cope Given the importance of improving the way in which the UK does business, it’s unedifying to see government and business trapped […]
The number of apprenticeship starts in England crashed by nearly 20 percent in November, according to government figures published this morning. Starts fell just four percent between August and October, but provisional figures for November when compared to the same publication last January reveal a fall of 5,200 (18 percent) in a single month. The […]
Line managers are crucial to successful learning and development. It doesn’t matter how much money an organisation spends on giving employees opportunities to increase their knowledge and improve their skills, if line managers don’t then give employees the opportunity to use those new capabilities in their day-to-day work, it’s money and time wasted. Learning doesn’t […]
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