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Almost three quarters of training providers are unhappy with the amount of non-levy apprenticeship funding available, claiming it is “insufficient” to meet demand from small businesses. A new AELP survey, published on the second day of its national conference in London, reveals that the apprenticeship money set aside for SMEs this year is vastly lacking. […]
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Excitement has been building ahead of the speech from the skills minister, Anne Milton, at AELP’s annual conference. There was a chance the speech would be used to announce a dramatic policy U-turn: scrapping non-levy employer contributions for at least some apprenticeships. And it has been many years since I can remember an FE minister […]
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Issues with the 10-per-cent fee that small businesses must pay when they take on apprentices have been “noted”, but there will be no announcement on a rule change anytime soon, the skills minister has said. There was a lot of anticipation over whether Anne Milton would scrap the fee altogether during her speech at the […]
Learndirect has a new owner, after striking a deal with entrepreneur Wayne Janse van Rensburg for his firm Dimensions Training Solution to take the reins. But it remains unclear how many jobs will be saved at the troubled provider, as government income beyond July will be limited to Learndirect Apprenticeships Limited (LDA) which began recruiting […]
The Institute for Apprenticeships has been told to “get its act together” after it emerged that its panel of apprentices has gone nearly 10 months without actually convening. The panel is made up of current or recent apprentices who are supposed to discuss issues from the learner’s perspective and raise them with the main IfA […]
The number of approved apprenticeship standards has exceeded those awaiting sign-off for the first time, but the skills minister still wants to see things done ‘faster and better’. In fact, a tough-talking Anne Milton told FE Week that she has pursued the Institute for Apprenticeships over the need to pick up the pace with “a […]
A private provider has been rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. But there was no cause for celebration at the country’s biggest college group as it was downgraded from ‘good’ to ‘requires improvement’. Weir Training Limited, based in Surrey, was rated grade one across the board as it progressed from its previous ‘good’ ranking. Inspectors lauded directors […]
It was exactly a year ago that we labelled the new skills minister Anne Milton “the fixer”, after she said in her speech to the AELP annual conference that she was motivated “to make it work” rather than introduce “new, bright ideas”. So a year on and just a few days before she delivers her […]
The number of people starting an apprenticeship with the NHS has fallen by more than third over the last two years, FE Week can reveal. Expanding the amount of NHS apprentices has been a top priority for the health secretary Jeremy Hunt (pictured above), since he pledged in 2016 to create a further 100,000 starts […]
