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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 […]
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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 […]
A provider has hit out at Ofsted after the inspectorate sampled just a fraction of its apprentices to decide it was making ‘insufficient progress’ in an early monitoring report. AAA Training and Recruitment is expected to be suspended from recruiting new apprentices by the government after it was given the rating in two of the […]
A troubled college group that has been run by an interim chief executive for nearly a year has appointed an Ofsted inspector as its new permanent boss. John Evans (pictured) will take the reins from Dr Elaine McMahon at The Cornwall College Group during the autumn term. She has held the position in an interim […]
FE Week talks medal hopes and teamwork with WorldSkills UK mechatronics competitors Jack Dakin and Danny Slater as the final countdown to Kazan begins. Reporter Fraser Whieldon travelled to Toyota UK in Derby yesterday to meet the mechatronics duo; both of whom are 24, from Derby, and work at the automotive manufacturer. The two are […]
A-level results day is here! Over 200,000 students studying the qualifications up and down the country will today find out whether all their hard work has paid off, and what their next step in life will be. *** The live blog is now closed. Sorry if your pictures didn’t make it in – we’ve been […]
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Three quarters of training providers cannot meet the demands by small and medium sized employers for training apprentices, because the apprenticeship levy is running out of cash. That’s according to a new Association of Employment and Learning Providers survey, which also revealed a quarter of providers have had to turn away a prospective new SME […]
The chief executive of the Federation of Awarding Bodies has become the Brexit Party candidate for the Hastings and Rye MP seat. Tom Bewick, a former Labour councillor, will contest work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd for the constituency at the next general election. He told FE Week his professional duties as leader of FAB […]
