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Ofqual’s chief regulator Sally Collier has “reassured” GCSE and A-level students that the grades they get this summer will look “exactly the same as in previous years”. She has also promised made clear they will have “equal status” with universities, colleges and employers. Here is her message in full: I understand how unsettling the […]
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Online assessment will only work for around 40 per cent of apprenticeships and the government’s “vague” guidance in the area opens the market up to “widespread malpractice”, awarding organisations have warned. Last week the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education announced that face-to-face end-point competency assessment can be carried out remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. […]
A university is scrambling to recruit MBA apprentices amid the government’s review of the programme’s funding. On Monday the University of Bradford contacted small businesses to insist that “if you’ve ever wanted to do an MBA, now is the time”. An email, seen by FE Week, claims that government has “temporarily opened” the level 7 […]
The Education and Skills Funding Agency has today announced they will stop accepting applications to the controversial register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP). It will close to new bids, including second applications from providers that have already applied in the past 12 months, from 15 April. This will provide “time for applications in progress and […]
Colleges across England are identifying staff that could be eligible for an 80 per cent wage subsidy from the Covid-19 job retention scheme, FE Week understands. One principal said they had identified “about 30 staff to furlough on the basis that we’ve lost income from apprenticeships and commercial programmes”. Another said their board had unanimously […]
Training providers in the West Midlands will continue to be funded for the next three months irrespective of their recruitment levels, FE Week can reveal. A letter sent last night from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to its adult education budget providers (see links below) said monthly profile payments will be made to providers […]
Ofqual is hiring a director to lead a new apprenticeships team that will be “operating in the field” as it steps up its regulatory work in the end-point assessment market. This “critical new function” will include a team of nine who work remotely to find out if assessments are being delivered “appropriately and consistently”. Led […]
Colleges from across the UK are now being invited to take part in the first wave of the WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence programme. Twenty slots are up for grabs for general further education colleges that have over 1,000 learners aged 16 to 18 and a “broad” curriculum offering which want to take part in […]
Government must find sustainable solutions for learners and staff alike – and follow its own rules, writes Mark Dawe Last weekend I took part in an unprecedented FE Week webinar with AELP and AoC on a Saturday, to discuss the response to the coronavirus pandemic. With Lsect managing director Shane Mann ably marshalling proceedings as […]
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