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As Covid-19 lock-down looms, we must be there for one another

In the face of the global pandemic, there is a great deal for the UK’s awarding industry to be proud of, writes Tom Bewick Awarding organisations and endpoint assessment organisations have been hit badly by coronavirus. Our bread and butter, as thriving knowledge-based organisations, are about serving the qualifications and assessment needs of thousands of […]

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Apprentice assessment organisation hit by ‘significant cancellations’

A leading apprentice assessment organisation has told FE Week they are already experiencing “significant cancellations” following the coronavirus outbreak. A spokesperson for Highfield Group, one of the busiest end-point assessment organisations (EPAO) that is approved for 38 apprenticeship standards, said the cancellations were mainly as a result of employers restricting site access to visitors, as […]

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Training providers demand income guarantee and relaxation of funding rules

Ministers have been urged to guarantee training providers’ income and for the Department for Education to relax funding rules during the Covid-19 outbreak. Association of Employment and Learning Providers chief executive Mark Dawe has asked officials to honour non-levy and other funding contracts, including European Social Fund and subcontracts regardless of performance. He also called […]

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T-level assessment organisations call for 12 month delay

The awarding bodies designing the first three T-levels have called on the government to delay their rollout by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, FE Week can reveal. Pearson and NCFE have agreed with the Federation of Awarding Bodies that their launch should be combined with wave two and begin in September 2021 instead […]

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Training providers should also close their doors from Friday, minister tells AELP

Independent training providers should close their doors from Friday afternoon until further notice like schools and colleges, the apprenticeships and skills minister has confirmed. However, if a provider is going out to employers’ premises, if they are still allowed to, then this can continue alongside remote training and development. Department for Education minister Gillian Keegan […]

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Coronavirus: Colleges ‘expected’ to close from Friday

All colleges in England are “expected” to close from Friday as the government steps up its attempts to contain the coronavirus. GCSE and A-level exams will also not take place as planned in May and June. Education secretary Gavin Williamson made the announcements in the House of Commons this afternoon, where he  committed to continue […]

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FE Commissioner reveals how £80m rebuild and ‘significant failures’ put college’s future at risk

Poor forecasting and management of an £80 million investment in a new building put a college in “crisis mode” and its future at “significant risk”, the FE Commissioner has found. Richmond upon Thames College has been placed in supervised college status and it might now need to pursue a merger in order to survive. In […]

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Ofsted brand 1,000 civil service apprenticeship programme with KPMG as ‘inadequate’

One of the ‘big four’ accounting firms that trains nearly 1,000 civil service apprentices has been slammed as ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted. KPMG Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) has now been banned from the apprenticeships market as a result of a damning grade four report published today. A catalogues of issues, including a lack of unbiased careers […]

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Former ESFA boss to chair Student Loans Company

Former Education and Skills Funding Agency chief executive Peter Lauener has been appointed as chair of the Student Loans Company (SLC). The civil service veteran will take on the role alongside his other commitment as chair of both NCG ­– one of England’s largest college groups – and the Construction Industry Training Board. Lauener was […]

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