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AELP drops Covid-19 supplier relief legal challenge

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers has decided to not pursue legal action against the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s Covid-19 supplier relief scheme. Lawyers have advised that the only challenge they could now take would be to seek a judicial review, which the board of the membership organisation believes would come “at a […]

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Monthly apprenticeships update: March starts fall 24% while April plummets by 72%

Apprenticeship starts for the month of March 2020 are down by a quarter while April plunged by 72 per cent on the previous year, new government data has revealed. Monthly provisional figures for both of those months were published by the Department for Education this morning and show the huge impact that the Covid-19 pandemic […]

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Dawe quits AELP to lead training provider

Mark Dawe is stepping down as chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers to head up a major subcontractor to colleges. He began telling staff today that he is set to leave the role this summer after leading the membership organisation for four years. Current chief operating officer, Jane Hickie, has been […]

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PM ‘will look at the idea’ of offering an ‘apprenticeships guarantee’

The prime minister has said he will “look at the idea” of giving young people aged 16 to 25 an “apprenticeship guarantee”. Boris Johnson made the commitment this afternoon after stating that apprenticeships “are going to play a huge part in getting people back onto the jobs market” from Covid-19. He was taking questions from […]

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Labour hits out at government response to AELP’s claim ESFA provider relief is ‘unlawful’

Labour has accused the government of failing to make a “serious attempt” to answer AELP’s claim that the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s supplier relief scheme was “unlawful”. Shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey and shadow apprenticeships minister Toby Perkins have expressed their “disappointment” today in a joint letter to education secretary Gavin Williamson that urged […]

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Providers are taking the blame for a broken apprenticeships system

The government’s numbers on apprenticeships don’t add up. Worse still, they lead to blaming the wrong people and make necessary reforms less likely, writes John Hyde For all the finger-pointing at apprenticeship providers about the substantial drop in the ESFA’s Apprenticeship Achievement Rate (AAR), the truth is that it neither gives a true picture of […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 318

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Sally Gibbs, Group Director of Strategy and Growth, Seetec Group Start date: May 2020 Previous job: Head of Business Development, Shaw Trust Interesting fact: Outside of work you’re most likely to find Sally in a dance studio, she attends several classes a week Elaine McMahon, Interim […]

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ESFA rejects one-third of all AEB and non-levy supplier relief applications

A third of training providers that bid for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s apprenticeship and adult education Covid-19 supplier relief scheme were rejected because they struggled to “prove need”. The agency told FE Week that of the 165 applicants, 107 (65 per cent) “met the criteria for funding”. All bidders have now been informed […]

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College set to close with the loss of 117 jobs

A land-based college is set to close next year with the potential loss of 117 jobs following an FE Commissioner review which found the site was no longer financially viable. Askham Bryan College informed staff at Newton Rigg College in Penrith of the decision this afternoon. The move to shut in July 2021 has been […]

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