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Is a criminal investigation into 3aaa about to begin?

A criminal investigation into disgraced apprenticeship firm Aspire Achieve Advance could soon be launched after the Department for Education requested a meeting with the police. The company, better known as 3aaa, went into administration on October 11 after the government pulled its skills funding contracts following allegations of fraud. Derbyshire Constabulary then started making enquiries […]

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Labour Party to use National Apprenticeship Week to highlight lack of apprentices in the civil service

Labour is planning to use National Apprenticeships Week to attack the government on their commitment to their own public sector apprenticeship recruitment target. Over the last week multiple MPs from the party have submitted a series of questions to ministers asking for the number of apprentices working in their department. The questions have all been […]

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How local areas are tackling youth unemployment

While last week’s employment statistics were generally good news, they also revealed that youth unemployment is rising. Fiona Aldridge shares what local areas across the country are doing to try and buck this trend For those of you looking for some good news, last week’s labour market stats are a great place to start. The […]

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Ofsted watch: Independent specialist college rated ‘inadequate’ in poor week for providers

An independent specialist college has been hit with an ‘inadequate’ rating after Ofsted found students with high needs were being placed in “potentially harmful situations,” in a less than impressive week for FE providers. Elsewhere two out of five early monitoring reports for new apprenticeship firms resulted in ‘insufficient’ verdicts, while one private provider was […]

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Potential for extra funding for small employer apprentices – but no promises

The government “anticipates” it will be able fund all over-delivery on non-levy apprenticeships for providers who exceed their contract allocation in the January 2018 to March 2019 period. The news will be met with a cautious welcome by the many providers who surpassed their share of funding to train apprentices with small employers this year, […]

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ESFA developing ‘ITP risk assessment tool’ to root out failing private providers

The government is developing a tool to risk assess independent training providers, as part of “strengthening” oversight. The plan, which was revealed in the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s management board minutes from January, comes as the agency ploughs more resources into its capacity to audit and intervene in training firms. In September FE Week […]

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Revealed: The commissioners selected for Labour’s adult education advisory board

A team of 16 education experts have joined Labour’s lifelong learning commission. Among the new commissioners are former education secretary Estelle Morries, former Association of Colleges chair Carole Stott, managing director of City and Guilds Kirstie Donnelly, and FE Week contributor professor Ewart Keep. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will officially launch the commission, which will […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 271

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Colin Davey, Performing & Production Arts Subject Leader, Plymouth College of Art Pre-Degree Campus. Start date: January 2019 Previous job: Performing Arts Lecturer & Play It Again Theatre Company Actor & Workshop Facilitator, Exeter College Interesting fact: Colin was born with a vocal defect that meant he […]

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Halfon’s call to replace GCSEs and A-levels with ‘holistic baccalaureate’ denounced as ‘reckless’

Calls to replace GCSEs and A-levels with a “holistic baccalaureate” have been branded a “non-starter” by an advocate of a similar model. Tom Sherrington, a trustee of the National Baccalaureate Trust, warned that “headline-grabbing” comments made this week by parliamentary education committee chair Robert Halfon and a number of other high-profile leaders were “reckless”. He […]

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