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Budget 2018: Apprenticeship fees halved to 5% for small businesses

The 10-per-cent fee that small businesses must pay when they take on apprentices will be halved, the chancellor has announced. Philip Hammond (pictured) told the Commons today that SMEs must now only contribute 5 per cent to the training, as part of a “£695 million package to support apprenticeships”. The Treasury originally told FE Week […]

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Adults are still being trapped in low-paid work

The recent technical reforms still do little to help young people stuck in low levels of education or adults trapped in low-paid work, laments Andy Norman For too many people, low-skilled, poorly-paid and insecure work is the only option. A successful skills system can empower people to move into the well-paid good jobs that are […]

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Budget 2018: Apprentice minimum wage set to rise again

The national minimum wage for apprentices will rise again in April, from £3.70 to £3.90 per hour, the chancellor announced in his budget statement today. The 20 pence extra is a 5.4 per cent rise and follows last year’s increase from £3.50, after Philip Hammond accepted recommendations from the independent Low Pay Commission. The jump […]

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Ofsted Watch: Mixed results for private providers

It has been a mixed week for independent learning providers, after four were found lacking in Ofsted inspections – one of which fell from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’. However, it was more positive news for four other ITPs and a general FE college, which were found to be making good headway in their own monitoring […]

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Employer satisfaction falls across FE, but ITPs still edge ahead of colleges

Employer satisfaction levels have fallen across the FE sector this year, but private providers are still outperforming colleges. The latest government research, based on the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s 2017/18 employer satisfaction survey, shows a small decline in satisfaction with every type of provider. The survey of almost 55,000 employers revealed that 87.8 per […]

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Apprenticeships by industry characteristics data: The 5 things we learnt

New research on apprenticeships by industry characteristics has revealed which sector is the most popular, what is preferred by each gender and where in the country apprenticeship starts are lowest. The Department for Education has compiled statistics focusing on the five academic years between 2012/13 and 2016/17, and published them today. Here are five things […]

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Monthly apprenticeships update: July starts down 43% on 2016

Apprenticeship starts for July are down 43 per cent on the same month in 2016 – but up 21 per cent on last year. There have been 25,200 starts recorded so far in July 2018, compared with 44,100 in June 2016 according to the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s monthly apprenticeship statistics update, published this […]

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High Court Judge places 3aaa into compulsory liquidation

Former apprenticeship provider Aspire Achieve Advance has been placed into compulsory liquidation, after a High Court Judge accepted a winding up petition brought before the court earlier today. The directors of the company, better known as 3aaa, submitted a winding up petition against itself last week. It follows the training provider closing its doors earlier […]

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£50k to join ESFA ‘top-quality’ apprenticeship register

Concerns have been raised about a loophole in the government’s apprenticeships register after a broker advertised how companies can buy their way on to it. FE Week discovered the apparent short cut on Wednesday when Yorkshire-based Education & Skills Consultancy put out an advert to sell a provider for between £50,000 and £60,000. Its heading […]

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