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Nursing degree apprenticeship start targets will be missed without urgent reform to how the apprenticeship levy can be spent, MPs have been warned. There has been an extremely slow take-up so far, with only 30 starts up to the end of January this year, the Commons education committee was told in a specially convened hearing. […]
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The launch of a £2.6 million tender by the Education and Skills Funding Agency to deliver community learning services in Somerset has prompted demands for fairness and reform to the procurement process over the apparent special treatment. The invitation to tender, published May 31, follows a campaign by community learning provider Somerset Skills and Learning […]
Nursing degree apprenticeships are too expensive and fraught with difficulties for widespread roll-out, senior figures from the NHS are expected to warn MPs. The Education Committee is dedicating a special session at 10.15am this morning – which can be viewed here – to what more can be done to get more people signing up for […]
The skills minister has told the Institute for Apprenticeships to get “faster and better” at approving apprenticeship standards. Anne Milton’s request appeared in a document called “strategic guidance to the Institute for Apprenticeships”, published today. FE Week revealed two weeks ago that the institute approved just four standards throughout April and 10 in March, down […]
The Institute for Apprenticeships has begun the recruitment process for membership to its 15 occupational route panels. The groups are being created to lead the review and approval of new apprenticeship standards and technical qualifications. They will be in addition to the panels set up by the Department for Education for T-levels, but once the […]
It’s been an ‘outstanding’ week for the FE and skills sector, as a specialist college has received the highest possible rating across the board. And an independent training provider has gone straight in with a grade two on its first ever inspection. Hartpury College was rated grade one overall and in all areas inspected in […]
A publicly listed company is in talks to buy Learndirect Ltd, FE Week has learned. PeoplePlus Group Limited, which is owned by Staffline and already trains tens of thousands of people each year, opened a dialogue with the nation’s biggest FE provider over a purchase last week. Discussions are understood to be in the early […]
An early monitoring visit to Learndirect Apprenticeships Ltd has produced mainly positive feedback, with only a few downsides to its delivery. Ofsted deemed the provider to be making “reasonable progress” in all fields it judges in an inspection undertaken as part of a series of visits to new apprenticeship training providers. But no significant headway […]
Another Ofsted early monitoring visit to an apprenticeship provider has resulted in a verdict of ‘insufficient progress’ in at least one area – but the Department for Education has refused to say whether it will take action. The watchdog’s report into Mears Learning is the fourth of the 11 monitoring reports so far published to […]
