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Apprentice minimum wage to rise to £7.55

New rate will apply from April 2025, chancellor set to announce at tomorrow’s budget

News, Apprenticeships, Budget 2024

Assessing Skills for Job-Ready Learners 

Discover how hands-on practice and authentic assessments help educators build both technical expertise and essential soft skills in learners.

News, Sponsored post, Sponsored post

Cambridge drops senior leader apprenticeship despite ‘outstanding’ inspection

The university said the senior leader apprenticeship was no longer viable

News, Apprenticeships, Higher education, Ofsted

Level 3 qualifications reform poses a risk to digital skills

BTECS are an essential part of skills training for the digital sector, for which no replacement yet exists

Opinion, level 3

Give employers tax relief on training, say Lords

The model could unlock over £1 billion in employer investment in training, estimates suggest

News, Apprenticeships, Skills reform

Skills England penned in by DfE capture, say critics

In-housing skills could damage credibility with employers

News, Skills England

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 475

Fiona Aldridge Chief Executive, Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards Start date: September 2024 Previous Job: Head of Insight – Employment and skills, West Midlands Combined Authority Interesting fact: Fiona is busy learning about sector skills bodies for this job, particularly IMI as her daughter just started a motor engineering course at Loughborough College […]

Movers and Shakers

Crisis in schools creates a NEET problem for FE to solve

Jessica Hill examines the triggers and FE
solutions as worsening school absenteeism
piles pressure on colleges to provide lower-
level post-16 courses

Feature, News, Long read

How Skills England can avoid the political scrapheap

To avoid the (i)fate of its predecessors, Skills England needs independence, a wide remit and clear powers to make a difference

Opinion, Skills England