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FE Week was joined by Labour’s shadow minister for apprenticeships and lifelong learning Toby Perkins on Monday for our latest webinar on the response to the coronavirus pandemic for the FE and skills sector. Here were the main takeaway points. Extend supplier relief support to levy-funded apprenticeships The Labour Party believes the Education & Skills […]
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The government has been urged to take action against recurrent “very high levels” of illegally low apprentice wages. The Low Pay Commission published its third report today to advise government on compliance with national minimum wage rates, and highlighted that as many as one in three apprentices in some age groups are not paid their […]
The full transition onto the digital apprenticeship system has been delayed by four months, the Education and Skills Funding Agency announced today. Officials had planned to end provider funding allocations being used to train apprentices with small non-levy paying businesses by 31 October, with all starts to be managed through the online service from 1 […]
The government’s apprenticeships quango has announced it will launch a second funding rate consultation – days before the deadline closes on the first consultation. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is currently seeking views on a proposed new model for setting individual apprenticeship standard funding rates, the deadline for which has been extended to […]
Propelled rapidly upwards when her predecessor left, Christine Ricketts has been a steady hand on the wheel following troubled times at Brooklands College, in Surrey. She had long aspired to be a deputy principal when Christine Ricketts spotted the advert for the role at Brooklands College, on the far outskirts of south-west London. She went […]
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Colleges in England look set to lose around £150 million of their income, 2 per cent of turnover, in the last term of this academic year. Most will be able to cope with that after using the government’s job retention scheme and negotiating open-book deals with key suppliers; some will need cashflow support. Next year, […]
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FE Week was joined by Labour’s new shadow apprenticeships minister Toby Perkins yesterday for our latest webinar on the response to the coronavirus pandemic for the FE and skills sector. Hot topics included the government’s supplier relief scheme for training providers as well as former education minister Andrew Adonis’ controversial comments on school and college […]
FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan on Monday for our latest webinar on the response to the coronavirus pandemic for the FE and skills sector. Here were the main takeaway points. ‘Anomaly’ leaving majority of apprenticeships ineligible for ESFA supplier relief The majority of apprenticeship providers are not eligible for supplier […]
A two-year £10 million project to renovate the digital apprenticeship service as it is scaled up is being launched by the Department for Education. The development, to start as soon as next month, will aim to “simplify processes to remove burden” by, for example, creating a new function for paying end-point assessment organisations direct. The […]
