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‘apprenticeships’
Every month, Anne Milton, the minister in charge of skills and apprenticeships, will write a column for FE Week, giving her perspective on the issues facing the sector. For her first outing, she tackles the non-levy procurement exercise As a government we have made significant changes to the way our apprenticeship system will work – […]
Opinion
The government’s wrong-headed performance measures do not work for 14-to-16 provision, and cannot give vocational learning the credit it deserves, writes Sam Parrett Over two years ago, I wrote to what was then the EFA to express my concerns around the new Progress 8 performance measures and how they would be applied to our cohort […]
32-year-old Jo Maher was recently appointed principal and CEO of Lincolnshire’s Boston College, so how is she coping with the pressure of such a high-profile job? FE Week went to find out. When leading an institution of tens of thousands of students through a massive, systemic overhaul, there are a variety of attitudes one can […]
Profiles
Unless there’s the space for young people to transfer the skills they learn onto another route, we risk locking them into careers they no longer want to follow, writes Julie Hyde With just under a week to go until the Institute for Apprenticeships closes its consultation on the occupational maps for the new T-levels, there […]
The National College for Motorsport (NC4M) has been recognised for its services to the motorsport industry, reports Samantha King. The college, which was established in 2003, was presented the MIA Service to Industry Award at the Motorsport Industry Association’s Business Excellence Awards in January, attended by representatives from across the motor industry, including people from […]
Bulletin
The government increased the size of the register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP) by 354 today, pushing the total to 2,187 organisations with direct access to funding and in scope for Ofsted inspection. The number of apprenticeship providers now in scope for Ofsted inspection, assuming the vast majority recruit level two and three apprentices, has now […]
News
The Northern Powerhouse Partnership has today published a major report on how the region can close the education and skills attainment gap with the south. Chaired by former chancellor George Osborne, the organisation has a number of recommendations for improving FE. FE Week has pulled out the eight main findings. 1. “Bureaucracy” is to blame […]
Five city mayors have committed to increasing the number of apprentices from ethnic minority and disadvantaged backgrounds. The ‘Five cities project’, launched by the Department for Education, will see the National Apprenticeship Service work with the mayors of Greater Manchester, London, Bristol, Birmingham and Leicester to improve apprenticeship diversity in their areas. The cities’ respective […]
Any former Carillion apprentice who is yet to find alternative employment following the collapse of the outsourcing giant will be paid after January, despite reports claiming this was not the case, the government has confirmed. A story by the Huffington Post on Monday claimed that the apprenticeships and skills minister Anne Milton had said payments […]
