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‘apprenticeships’
Last February, when Skills Minister Anne Milton was faced with a 41 percent fall in apprenticeships starts since the levy was introduced, she bravely told me she expected to see an upturn by September. “I will be told by my officials that I shouldn’t say this, but I’m going to say it anyway,” she said. […]
Opinion
Apprenticeships found to be planned with less than the minimum 20 per cent off-the-job training will be “ineligible and all funding would be recovered”, FE Week can reveal. The off-the-job training policy has prompted controversy and confusion since it was introduced in 2017. In an attempt to provide some clarity, the Department for Education published […]
News
Management standards are continuing their reign as the most popular apprenticeships, according to the first statistics for 2018/19 published by the Department for Education this week. The team leader/supervisor had the most starts of any standard in the first quarter of the year, while three other management standards were among the 20 most popular. They […]
The Greater London Authority is one step closer to capping management fees when it takes control of the adult education budget next year, but the government is still yet to make a decision for the rest of the country. In a draft rulebook for providers in London, published last month ahead of devolution of the […]
Three FE teaching apprenticeship standards will be ready for delivery from next week following a successful funding-band appeal against the Institute for Apprenticeships, FE Week understands. The trailblazer group developing the standards had accused the IfA of exceeding its powers after claiming the proposed funding bands were just half what they would cost to deliver. […]
Apprenticeship starts are up 15 per cent for the first quarter of 2018/19 compared with the same period in 2017/18. There were 132,000 starts from August to October 2018, a rise of 17,700 or 15 per cent on the 2017/18 figure of 114,300, according to figures published by the Department for Education this morning. But […]
A college that has plummeted two Ofsted grades from its previous ‘outstanding’ has insisted its bid to open an Institute of Technology is “not in jeopardy”. Swindon College was rated ‘requires improvement’ overall and in five out of eight headline fields, in a report published today and based on an inspection in December. It was […]
Learndirect has started to win government funding to deliver skills training again, after its new owner secured more than £20 million worth of European Social Fund contracts. FE Week understands that the nation’s former largest FE provider won the funding, which is used to deliver employment and skills support to disadvantaged people, in four different […]
Two NHS trusts have been put in intensive care this week, following poor Ofsted reports – one a monitoring visit, the other a full inspection. Elsewhere, a trio of providers have maintained their grade three ratings for at least the second inspection in a row. Walsall NHS Trust was rated ‘inadequate’ across the board for […]
