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‘apprenticeships’
One of England’s largest college groups spent close to £4 million on ‘Project Apple’ to shut two training arms which contributed to an £11 million deficit last year. The shortfall at NCG isn’t the group’s only financial concern: it is also expecting the Education and Skills Funding Agency to recoup funding that goes back “a […]
News
The FE sector needs to recognise that government has “made a step forward, even if it may not be a giant leap” when it comes to funding, the re-elected chair of the education committee has said. Robert Halfon also believes the apprenticeship levy is in need of reform, but he does not agree with the […]
Blaming colleges for simply recruiting students to course subjects they want to study is weird and not the solution to the problem of matching skills to the economy, says Adrian Perry After years of cuts, FE is getting mentioned in government education briefings and House of Commons debates. This is good news, but it brings […]
Opinion
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
