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Revealed: Ofsted’s second report into ‘new’ apprenticeship providers

The second of a new wave of Ofsted early-monitoring visit reports keeping a close eye on newcomers to directly funded apprenticeship provision has returned with largely positive findings. The report into London College of Apprenticeship Training rates it as making significant progress in one area and reasonable progress in two. This is far more positive […]

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Government should do more to increase 16 to 18 apprenticeships, new report urges

The government should do more to boost the number of 16- to 18-year-olds doing apprenticeships due to the “overwhelming” benefits to both employers and apprentices, a new report has urged. ‘Apprenticeship training in England – a cost-effective model for firms?’, published today by the Education Policy Institute, looked at the potential costs and benefits for […]

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Labour launches National Education Service consultation

The Labour Party has today launched a consultation on its plans for a National Education Service. Running for 12 weeks, the England-wide consultation is seeking views on the party’s education policies which were officially launched during the general election campaign last year. The NES is Labour’s umbrella term for a raft of pledged reforms, including […]

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Launch of apprenticeship levy transfer limited to just one receiving employer

Employers who are gearing up to transfer apprenticeship levy funds to other organisations from next month will only be allowed to handover the cash to one other company, the government has confirmed. From May, large employers who pay the levy will for the first time be allowed to transfer up to 10 per cent of […]

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College branded ‘unsafe’ in damning Ofsted report

A Northamptonshire college has been slammed with a grade four by Ofsted for delivering “unsafe” training in “highly dangerous vocational areas” such as construction and equine studies. Moulton College is a specialist land-based college with onsite accommodation that also delivers programmes in animal management, sport and food and drink manufacturing. It was today branded ‘inadequate’ […]

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Monthly update: apprenticeship starts down 23 per cent in December

UPDATED: To ensure we’re comparing like with like, the table has been updated to include provisional figures from August to December 2016, as the figures for this period in 2017 are still provisional. Figures for May to July are final for both 2016 and 2017. Apprenticeship starts were down 23 per cent in December on […]

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Ofsted watch: Two providers pull up from ‘inadequate’

Two providers managed to pull themselves up from grade four this week – one to ‘good’ and the other to ‘requires improvement’. But at the other end of the scale there was disappointment for another provider as it failed to improve from its previous ‘inadequate’ grade. Adult and community learning provider Essex county council boosted […]

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Federation of Awarding Bodies appoints Tom Bewick as new chief executive

The Federation of Awarding Bodies has announced skills and enterprise policy expert Tom Bewick as its new chief executive today. Mr Bewick (pictured above speaking at FE Week’s Annual Apprenticeships Conference last week) will take up the helm from May 1, replacing John McNamara, who has led FAB on an interim basis since the departure […]

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Guildford College to join Activate Learning

A cash-strapped college that was forced to seek a merger after it became only the second institution to return to FE commissioner intervention has announced its new partner. Guildford College will become the fifth college member of Activate Learning later this year. John Denning, Guildford’s governing body chair, said the partnership was “very good news” […]

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