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The Liberal Democrats have pledged to invest an extra £1 billion in FE, including VAT refunds for colleges. “Further Education is vital route to learning and we will invest to support it,” the party has written in its manifesto, which was published today (click here to read). The Sixth Form College Association has welcomed the […]
News
The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has today recommended a new, more “robust approach” to subcontracting in an effort to avoid an outright ban. Subcontracting in FE, the practice of one provider paying another to deliver the training, has never been far from scandal and controversy. It has already been banned for advanced […]
A Labour government would train 80,000 people a year in a new climate apprenticeship programme, Jeremy Corbyn is expected to announce today. It is part of a raft of apprenticeship reforms being unveiled; including allowing levy funds to be spent on a wider range of accredited training and extending the time allowed for employers to […]
A move to campus-level Ofsted grades for college groups is back on the cards and they could be introduced as soon as next September, FE Week can reveal. The education watchdog will shortly meet with college leaders to discuss the move and a consultation will be run early in the new year. If support for […]
What would you tell the leaders of the major political parties about needed policy changes in further education? The Collab Group has a few answers, says Shelagh Legrave Recent government industrial strategies have identified skills as a key driver to improve productivity in the UK. Low-skilled workers, according to the OECD, place the country […]
Opinion
Another eight apprenticeship providers have been stopped from doing new business after being rapped by Ofsted. The penalties were revealed in the latest update to the register of apprenticeship training providers, released today by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. In accordance with ESFA rules, any new provider found to be making ‘insufficient progress’ in […]
Education giant City & Guilds announced today it has acquired its second training provider in two years. Intertrain, a large provider for the railway industry, is the latest acquisition after Gen2, which claims to be the largest training provider to the UK civil nuclear industry, joined in May 2017. City & Guilds Group declined to […]
The Lib Dems have pledged to give every adult in England £10,000 to put towards education and training. In what the party called a “new era of learning throughout life”, the cash would be placed into a “skills wallet” over a 30-year period. They would put £4,000 in there by the age of 25, £3,000 […]
This election comes at a critical time for further education, writes Ian Pretty. We must press for a commitment to transform the sector that goes well beyond simple funding promises. There is little doubt that this general election promises to be among the most unpredictable in modern history. We cannot with any degree of certainty […]
