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Profile: Corrina Hembury

Corrina Hembury has seen it all: Jess Staufenberg meets the training provider managing director who started as an apprentice Corrina Hembury “started everything young”. She began teaching at 19, got married the same year and was a qualified teacher by 21. Despite “loving school”, she only managed half a term of sixth form before switching […]

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IFS warns FE funding pledges may lead to fraud and poor value for money

The “extremely large” rises in adult education spending proposed by Labour and the Liberal Democrats open up “genuine risks” to fraud and poor value for money, a think-tank has warned. A new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has analysed the FE pledges from the three main political parties ahead of next week’s general […]

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Ofsted finds ‘many’ employers did not know staff were apprentices

“Many” employers working with a new independent provider for the care sector did not know their staff were on apprenticeships, Ofsted has found. Care Assessment Training Services was deemed to have a made ‘insufficient progress’ in two areas of an early monitoring visit for a host of issues with its provision to 102 apprentices. The […]

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Williamson taken to task on Conservative manifesto

While the Conservatives’ manifesto published on Sunday had some eye-catching FE pledges, including a new £3 billion national skills fund and £1.8 billion for college capital, there were some notable omissions. FE Week chief reporter Billy Camden has taken education secretary Gavin Williamson to task on the areas his party appeared to dodge.   The […]

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Ofsted watch: Long-running commercial provider hit with grade 4 in poor week for FE

It has been a poor week for FE, with one independent provider being declared ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted and seven receiving at least one ‘insufficient progress’ rating in monitoring reports. WDR Limited, a commercial training organisation that has been operating for 49 years, was given a grade four after a full inspection. The provider, which had […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 299

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Rebecca Conway: Head of policy and strategy, Federation of Awarding Bodies Start date: November 2019 Previous job: Product manager, Assessment projects group, Cambridge Assessment International Education Interesting fact: Her first job was in a bingo hall, checking claims when people shouted ‘HOUSE!’  Mick Lochran: Deputy chief executive, […]

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Police and schools top list of those missing apprenticeship targets

The police and schools are the public-sector bodies with most to do to meet the government’s apprenticeship recruitment target, according to new data from the Department for Education. Apprentices made up an average of only 0.5 per cent of the workforce in police forces across England in 2018-19, followed by an average of 0.9 per […]

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National Apprenticeship Award winners of 2019

The “outstanding” work of apprentices, government officials and employers was recognised at the National Apprenticeship Awards for 2019 on Wednesday. The great and the good of the FE sector turned out for the glittering awards ceremony in London, which was hosted by TV presenter and actor Reggie Yates. These awards followed on from this year’s […]

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CBI: Don’t restrict how the apprenticeship levy is spent

The Confederation of British Industry has urged the government not to restrict how the apprenticeship levy is spent in the face of opposition from nearly eight in ten businesses. Limits on age, income or level of training would make 78 per cent of 208 businesses and trade associations surveyed for the 2019 CBI and Pearson […]

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