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Is pushing ahead with T-levels fair on young people?

The top civil servant at the DfE, responsible for the “feasibility of public spending” has concluded that T-levels need delaying for a second year. Jonathan Slater’s formal “ministerial direction” means the civil service feels the need to tell the National Audit Office, the Treasury and the Public Accounts Committee there are “feasibility and consequential value-for-money […]

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Universities battle with IfA over degree funding cuts

Universities are butting heads with the Institute for Apprenticeships over funding-rate reductions – and many may even stop offering degree-level standards if they go ahead. The body that polices apprenticeships announced a funding-band review of 31 standards this week. This included some of the most popular, including the chartered manager degree apprenticeship. This particular standard […]

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Ofsted to win apprenticeship money and power

Ofsted will have its powers and budget for FE inspections boosted after the government was embarrassed over apprenticeship accountability, FE Week can reveal. The watchdog will now be given potentially as much as £7 million to visit every new apprenticeship provider. Critically, it will also have the final say over quality. The decision been dubbed […]

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Damian Hinds refuses permanent secretary’s request to delay T-levels

The education secretary is sticking to the 2020 start date for T-levels – even though his own permanent secretary has asked to delay it until 2021. The revelation came in a ministerial direction published this afternoon by the Department for Education. “As things stand today, it will clearly be very challenging to ensure that the […]

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Windrush scandal official becomes Cabinet Office apprenticeships chief

The immigration enforcement official blamed for the downfall of the former home secretary Amber Rudd has been moved from the Home Office to the Cabinet Office to lead on apprenticeships strategy. The Home Office announced that Hugh Ind “is moving to work at the Cabinet Office where he will take forward the public sector apprenticeships […]

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Early Ofsted monitoring report highly critical of airports apprenticeship provider

Ofsted has levelled stinging criticism at a provider that trains apprentices for Heathrow Airport, in a hard-hitting early monitoring inspection report. The report on Birkenhead-based Mooreskills Limited was published today. It follows a report in March on Key6 Group, from the same town, that found its apprenticeships were “not fit for purpose”. These have been […]

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Most popular apprenticeships face rate cuts in IfA ‘funding band review’

The funding rate for the controversial management degree apprenticeship is set to fall, following a review of the most popular standards. The Institute for Apprenticeships announced today that it will look at 31 standards (see table below), at request from the Department for Education. The IfA will now have 30 funding bands to choose from […]

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Trouble brewing at NCG as Ofsted inspectors stay an extra day

Ofsted has taken a highly unusual decision to extend its inspection of NCG, suggesting that not all is well at the nation’s largest college group. Two teams of inspectors were sent in last Monday owing to achievement rate concerns, and they had been due to wrap up their investigations by the end of last week. […]

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Ofsted watch: An encouraging week for FE and skills

An adult and community learning provider has boosted its grade to ‘good’ in a positive week for the FE and skills sector, as two providers received glowing reports following monitoring visits of their apprenticeship provision. Hackney London Borough Council was rated grade two across the board, up from its previous ‘requires improvement’ rating, in a […]

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