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How to take part: the FE Week BIG FE & Skills Quiz

Fed up of lockdown? Fancy getting that brain back into gear? Want to nerd out with some other FE folk? We’re excited to announce that the first ever FE Week Big FE & Skills Quiz will take place next month  (Wed June 10 19:00-20:30). Hosted by FE Week’s publisher Shane Mann, the quiz is all […]

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Unfair: Sutton Trust finds young disadvantaged ‘losing out’ on degree apprenticeships

Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are “losing out” on degree level apprenticeships as they soar in popularity without “fair access”, new research has found. Analysis published today by the Sutton Trust, a social mobility foundation, found that young apprentices from deprived areas have been “crowded out” since the introduction of the levy as they made […]

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Take the ‘opportunity’ to reopen from June, says skills minister

Colleges that refuse to begin face-to-face teaching with students before the next academic year will “lose an opportunity to start a journey that we need to go through” to recover from Covid-19, Gillian Keegan has warned. The apprenticeships and skills minister believes the safety issues currently presented by the pandemic will still be there beyond […]

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Free recording: In conversation with skills minister Gillian Keegan

FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan this afternoon for our latest webinar on the response to the coronavirus pandemic for the FE and skills sector. Editor Nick Linford quizzed her on the Department for Education’s guidance on the wider reopening of colleges and training providers. Roger Coates, the DfE’s deputy director for […]

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Minister rules out delay to framework switch-off after ‘careful consideration’

Gillian Keegan has ruled out an extension to the switch-off date for starts on old-style apprenticeships, known as frameworks, after “comprehensive, careful consideration” of sector-wide concerns. Conversations between the skills minister and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education about a possible delay had been taking place as the July 31 end-date draws nearer. Numerous […]

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ESFA reveals new further education director

Kirsty Evans has been appointed as the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s new acting director of further education. She takes over the role from Peter Mucklow, who became the agency’s director of apprenticeships last month when Keith Smith left to join the Department for Education as its director of post-16 strategy. As director of further […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 317

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Jennifer Bramley, Chief Operating Officer, Babington Start date: May 2020 Previous job: Executive Director Customer Engagement, Babington Interesting fact: Actively hosts and participates in various fundraising events, ranging from 20 mile riverside walk to five-a-side football in support of local charities Peter Mucklow, Official Delegate, WorldSkills […]

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Former adviser to skills minister calls for temporary ban on new adult apprentices

The response to the pandemic recession must centre on supporting those who are finishing their education and those who are struggling to find work, says Tom Richmond Given the controversy surrounding the apprenticeship levy before the outbreak of Covid-19, it is unsurprising to see calls for the levy to be reformed as part of the […]

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It’s hard to argue that further college rationalisation isn’t needed

Rationalisation needs to reconcile three very different types of college – and the grey areas in between, says John Cope It is almost impossible to identify when this was said: “Commissioners cannot repeat too often that they have been impressed with [the] technical knowledge of the masters and managers of industrial establishments on the Continent”, […]

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