York College
‘apprenticeships’
Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving Malcolm Pate, Farm manager, Moulton College Start date: February 2018 Previous job: Farm manager, Streetly Hall Farm Limited Interesting fact: Malcolm plays the fiddle, and has toured Norway, the US and Canada as a member both of a folk band and the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra. ____________________________________________ […]
Movers and Shakers
Widespread failure has been exposed across Whitehall with hitting the government’s own target for apprentices employed by public bodies. Shadow skills minister Gordon Marsden (pictured above) and other MPs lodged a parliamentary question asking how many and what proportion of staff employed by various departments were apprentices. The intention was to find out how they are progressing […]
News
National Apprenticeship Week has proved to be a time of contrasting grades for this type of provision – with one college receiving the highest possible rating, and two providers receiving the lowest. Calderdale College was rated ‘outstanding’ for apprenticeships, but held onto its grade two overall, in a report published March 9 and based on […]
Nine training providers nearly missed out on almost £8 million of non-levy funding because officials mismarked their bids in the recent tender. FE Week understands that the money was almost held back because the ESFA had drafted in inexperienced assessors to mark the complex submissions. A Freedom of Information request showed that of all the […]
Barnfield College has suspended its recruitment of new apprentices, after it received an ‘inadequate’ rating for this provision from Ofsted this week. The college’s inspection report was published on March 7 and rated it ‘requires improvement’ overall, but the lowest possible mark was given for apprenticeships. Providers who get a grade four in this provision […]
The 20-per-cent off-the-job training rule is the biggest barrier to apprenticeship recruitment according to an FE Week survey – but Anne Milton will not budge on it. The contentious policy was attacked by more than a quarter of respondents to our annual survey, where we asked readers which single policy change would make the apprenticeship […]
Thirteen organisations, including a Welsh college and the furniture retail giant DFS, have been unexpectedly added to the register of apprenticeship training providers. The third and most recent window of opportunity to get on to RoATP closed at the end of October, with results published in January, and it has not officially reopened since. These […]
Apprenticeships as they stand are low-paid and inflexible, and that prices out people with care needs and children. This must change, warns Dr Carole Easton As the government struggles to reach its target of three million apprenticeship starts, and while employers figure out how to make the most of the new levy, the needs of […]
Opinion
Sheffield College has held onto its grade three rating following a recent Ofsted visit – despite concerns that falling standards could drag it down. The huge college, which has suffered a string of leadership changes in recent months, was rated ‘requires improvement’ overall and in six headline measures in a report published this morning and […]
