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You’re hired! Apprentice for Cabinet minister given permanent position

Health secretary and former skills minister Matt Hancock has awarded a permanent role in his office to his apprentice. Chloe Osborne-Wilson, aged 21, has been the “eyes and ears” for Hancock as a caseworker within his constituency of West Suffolk while making “tremendous progress” completing a level 3 business administrator apprenticeship over the past 18 […]

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IfA launches recruitment drive for more route panel members

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is looking for around 25 new experts to join its 15 sector-based route panels. The members are responsible for deciding the readiness of apprenticeship standards in development in the different sectors, reviewing and approving new standards and technical qualifications. The panels, created two years ago, decide what issues […]

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Apprenticeship providers forced to report off-the-job hours after NAO criticises lack of oversight

Providers will be forced to log apprentices’ off-the-job training hours from September, following high-profile concern about non-compliance with the unpopular rule going unchallenged. A new data field for individual learner records (ILR) is being introduced for 2019/20 to “provide information about the quantum of off-the-job training delivered” and “help demonstrate compliance with the funding rules”, […]

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IfA’s second funding band review: 10 of 30 standards signed off

Funding bands for 10 of the 30 apprenticeship standards under review by the Institute for Apprenticeships since last December have been approved by the education secretary Damian Hinds. Changes for those that have had their funding reduced will come into effect for apprenticeship starts from August 5, 2019, while those that have increased will have […]

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Ofsted watch: Universities stand out, while some big colleges fall short

Universities have stood out from the pack this week, while other types of providers have not done as well, including two big colleges which dropped to grade three. But it wasn’t all bad news for the college sector, as London South East Colleges, which has 10,000 learners, received a glowing grade two report. The University […]

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HS2 college needed last-minute DfE bailout to sign off accounts

The government had to promise a last-minute gift of £4.55 million to avoid a National College being unable to sign off last year’s accounts. The unplanned bailout to the National College for High Speed Rail came on top of an additional in-year £3.6 million working capital loan from the DfE. Accountants forecast a £7.5 million […]

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My three wishes to transform the future of traineeships

There are practical steps we can take to get traineeships back into the limelight – where they fully deserve to be. By Ceara Roopchand One of the dangers of sector reforms is the tendency for older programmes to be left languishing, often sidelined with the hope that they will continue to function without requiring too […]

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What have we learned from the new skills index? Not much

The long awaited “skills index” is too high-level to contribute to any targeted policy decisions, says Tom Richmond “The Department for Education (DfE) has not defined what success will look like for the programme, in terms of intended impact on skills levels within the economy, nor what indicators they will use to measure success.” The […]

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Mind the doors: young people are now getting more chances

Progress has stalled on improving qualifications for young people, but there are signs of progress on English and maths, says Stephen Evans First, the bad news. The proportion of 19-year-olds gaining a level 2 or level 3 qualification has stalled. More than eight in ten have a level 2 qualification, and six in ten a […]

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