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The government’s latest apprenticeship campaign appears to be bearing fruit after the Department for Education claimed the proportion of interested young people has nearly doubled. Last November, the DfE awarded a two-year £5 million contract to one of the world’s most renowned advertising companies – M&C Saatchi – to help boost apprenticeship numbers across the […]
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Yet another data field for logging apprentices’ off-the-job training hours will be introduced to individual learner records (ILR) from next August. It follows high-profile concern from the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee about non-compliance with the unpopular rule going unchallenged. The Education and Skills Funding Agency revealed today that a mandatory “off-the-Job training […]
Employers lost access to £44 million of their apprenticeship levy funds in July, and £52 million in August, the government has revealed. It means that a total of £133 million has expired from employers’ levy accounts to date. However, it is important to remember that the levy policy was designed so that large employers wouldn’t […]
One of England’s largest college groups is officially closing down its two private training providers – meaning nearly 300 jobs will be lost by the end of October. NCG has this morning confirmed that, following a consultation, Rathbone Training and Intraining are in the process of winding down their delivery operations. Around 4,500 learners were […]
The Department for Education has announced that Michelle Donelan will take over Kemi Badenoch’s brief as she goes on maternity leave. It is expected this means that Donelan (pictured), the MP for Chippenham, will hold the remit for supporting further education. Badenoch was appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in Boris Johnson’s recent reshuffle, […]
If you’ve been working in a increasingly arid financial desert for years, even a few splashes of liquid on the face will seem welcome. Not a fertile oasis, but might get you to next water hole before you expire from thirst. So I know why many of the people I and Angie Rayner stood alongside […]
Opinion
Skills for Care is to scrap their adult care external quality assurance service (ACEQUAS) to apprenticeship end-point assessment organisations, FE Week understands. This morning Skills for Care emailed all their partners to say they will cease to deliver their £40 per apprentice EQA service in early September. The email in full: “The Skills for Care […]
Young people in the UK feel their school or college are the worst in the world at preparing them for adult working life, a new report has revealed. A new report by the OECD called ‘Youth Voice for the Future of Work’, released to coincide with WorldSkills 2019 competition in Kazan, surveyed 842 18-24 year-olds […]
The Federation of Small Businesses has chosen GCSE results day to call on the new Secretary of State, Gavin Williamson, to take urgent action to increase apprenticeship funding. Their chief executive, Mike Cherry, points out that some students picking up their results today will now want to start an apprenticeship. But, he claims, their choices […]
