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The number of National Health Service apprenticeship starts fell by more than a fifth last year despite a plan for rapid expansion. Increasing the amount of NHS apprentices has been an important government goal since 2016, when health secretary Jeremy Hunt pledged to create a further 100,000 starts in the sector by 2020. At that […]
News
A private provider has earned the ignominious honour this week of being rated ‘inadequate’ at its first ever inspection. And two “new” apprenticeships providers have fared little better, with both found to be making “insufficient progress” in at least one area, according in monitoring visit reports published this week. The Terri Brooke School of Nails […]
NCG has been in the headlines lately, what with the visits from Ofsted, its falling achievement rates, mass redundancies, strike action and the closure of the free school it sponsors. FE Week senior reporter Billy Camden sat down with the group’s new chair, once the ESFA’s chief executive, Peter Lauener to discuss why he took […]
Low-level apprenticeships should not be rubbished by “commentators and policy makers”, the Association of Employment and Learning Providers has claimed in a new report. The body wants ministers to use government spending and post-18 education reviews as an opportunity to “reverse the sharp fall in level two apprenticeships since May 2017”. The apprenticeship levy is […]
The metro mayors overseeing skills budget devolution have joined forces to demand control of apprenticeship levy cash that employers fail to spend. The devolved adult education budget will come into effect from 2019/20. In a joint statement, they insisted that with Brexit approaching it is more important than ever to ensure local workers have the […]
Sadiq Khan’s first skills strategy has lots to welcome, writes Stephen Evans, but to make a step change we need a clearer devolution deal and ambitious mayors. The mayor of London’s been busy; criticised after FE Week reported his plan to fund 50 posts by top-slicing the soon-to-be-devolved adult education budget, he’s now set out […]
Opinion
There are worries across the FE sector that T-levels are being rushed through, but Anne Milton believes there’s no time like the present Last month we took an exciting step forward and announced the 52 colleges and post-16 providers which will be leading the way and teaching the first new T-levels. These qualifications will be […]
There’s plenty going on at the Institute for Apprenticeships at the moment, and its boss Sir Gerry Berragan is using the first instalment of his exclusive new column for FE Week to tell you all about it over the coming months The Institute is a “crown non-departmental public body”, putting employers at the heart of […]
Apprenticeship starts for March are down 52 per cent compared with the same period in 2017. There have been 23,900 starts recorded so far in March 2018, compared with 50,000 in March 2017 according to the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s monthly apprenticeship statistics update, published this morning. Overall starts for the year to date […]
