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A significant apprenticeship provider plans to stop recruiting in the care sector after the government rejected calls to increase funding rates. The “devastating” decision is being taken by Surrey-based Professional Training Solutions (PTS) Limited, which offers hundreds of apprenticeships every year, mostly in health and social care. It was desperate for the Department for Education […]
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An experienced commercial training provider has been heavily criticised by Ofsted after it found a “high proportion” of learners not knowing they are on an apprenticeship programme. Manatec Limited, which had 550 apprentices at the time of inspection and is based in Grimsby, received two ‘insufficient’ ratings in its first monitoring visit since it started […]
The names of the 30 providers to win contracts with the Greater London Authority to deliver its devolved adult education budget from August have finally been released. Of the GLA’s total annual budget of £306 million, around £130 million is being procured over four years. A tender for a slice of the funding got underway […]
The way the apprenticeships programme is evolving is “out of kilter” with the government’s own objectives and “poor execution” has created “serious longer-term problems”, the Public Accounts Committee has warned. The damning conclusion was made in the influential committee of MPs’ new apprenticeships progress report that said the reforms made in spring 2017 are failing […]
The Public Accounts Committee has today published its progress report into the apprenticeship reforms that were introduced in April 2017. Members of the committee grilled a number high-profile government officials on the affordability of the programme in March following a National Audit Office report earlier that month that warned it is not financially sustainable. The […]
The Institute for Apprenticeships has officially begun its spring cleaning of old standards, and started by withdrawing three in the digital sector. A review of 12 digital apprenticeships developed prior to April 2017 got underway in September to ensure their content is of high-quality, meeting employer needs and do not overlap with each other. The […]
A large employer provider in the security sector that was suspended from recruiting apprentices last year has been rated ‘inadequate’ after Ofsted found none of its apprentices achieved their qualification. Securitas UK said today it will challenge the education watchdog after it criticised leaders and managers for being “too slow” to improve the weaknesses identified […]
The City and Guilds Group has called for the creation of a new independent body to oversee skills policy in the UK to put a stop to decisions being made in “short-term political cycles” by ministers. In its ‘Sense & Instability 2019’ report, the education giant warned that government policy is being created “without any […]
The ongoing financial scandal engulfing Hadlow College has led to it having the dubious honour of becoming the first to be taken through the new college insolvency regime. FE Week can reveal that the Department for Education plans to end bailouts to the college, and on Tuesday the education secretary, Damian Hinds, applied to the […]
