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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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A new field is set to be introduced to individual learner records (ILR) to support government audits of apprenticeship training. The Education and Skills Funding Agency confirmed today that all FE providers will need to log “actual” off-the-job hours from August 2020. It will apply to apprentices who started new programmes from 1 August 2019. […]
The founder of a firm at the centre of a major education data breach involving betting companies was subject to a previous government investigation. Questions have now been asked as to why the firm, which offers screening checks, was allowed access to a database with the records of 28 million young people, meant only for […]
Parents are lobbying the government to restart funding for an arts and media provider that trained mostly high-needs learners. The Education and Skills Funding Agency terminated its contracts with Sheffield Independent Film and Television (SHIFT) last year, after it was rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted. A report by the education watchdog, published in February 2019, said […]
Education secretary Gavin Williamson has applauded the UK’s ambition to host an upcoming WorldSkills competition – and is encouraging the sector to back a bid. His remarks come as FE Week launches its ‘Back A Bid’ campaign to prove there is sufficient interest in hosting the competition, affectionately known as the ‘Skills Olympics’, in 2027. […]
The new boss of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is “excited to step out of the confines” of the Department for Education and have “more of an independent voice”. Civil servant veteran Jennifer Coupland made the admission during her first sit down interview with FE Week today. She pledged to instil “collaboration” into […]
Apprenticeships at a major airline have been heavily criticised by Ofsted, which found “disorganisation” and “inconsistency” meant too many employees “did not see the value of being an apprentice”. British Airways, an employer provider which is drawing down government apprenticeship funding for over 500 of its own staff, was found to have made ‘insufficient progress’ […]
