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With the UK’s poor economic forecast doing few favours to the skills budget, government must ensure it’s putting money into policies that will actually raise overall productivity, argues Sandra McNally While the chancellor acknowledged the importance of education and skills in his budget speech, the bleak outlook for the economy makes it difficult for him […]
Opinion
The Construction Industry Training Board has held onto its ‘outstanding’ rating from Ofsted, in a report due to be officially published tomorrow. The report, which looked only at its apprenticeship provision that is all run through subcontractors, returned grade ones across the board. CITB was also rated grade one-overall in a report published January 2013. […]
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Learndirect’s apprenticeship achievement rates have continued to fall, Ofsted has found in its first monitoring visit to the provider since its grade four earlier in the year. Inspectors revisited the nation’s biggest FE provider at the end of October, and noted several improvements, while highlighting various areas of concern. One of the most concerning findings […]
The government’s commitment to three million apprenticeship starts by 2020 is increasingly out of reach, exclusive FE Week analysis of new statistics has revealed. Average monthly starts are 17 per cent lower than where they need to be to hit that target by that year. Previous start figures had only been available on a quarterly […]
The Baker clause, which forces schools to open their doors to FE providers to let them advertise their services to pupils, will take effect from January, according to guidance published this morning by the Department for Education. The amendment to the Technical and Further Education Act, which came into law in May, was proposed by […]
The government will invest an extra £20 million to help colleges prepare for the introduction of T-levels, the chancellor has announced in his autumn budget speech. “We are introducing T-levels and today I announce a further £20 million to support FE colleges to prepare for them,” he told the nation. It is thought this cash injection […]
A major college that has been battling a financial crisis has clawed its way up to a ‘good’ Ofsted rating, four years after it tumbled from the top grade to the bottom. City of Liverpool College has experienced a rocky few years since its current principal Elaine Bowker took over in 2011, including two interventions […]
The chief executive of a large general further education college in the north of England has resigned. The Sheffield College confirmed today that Paul Corcoran “has decided to resign” from his senior role, which he had held since June 2015. A spokesperson for the 16-000-learner college said it had accepted his resignation, and installed principal […]
The apprenticeship levy is having a challenging introduction, the new person in charge of education finances has admitted. Eileen Milner (pictured above) admitted as much in a statement marking her first day as chief executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency. “Seven months into the apprenticeship levy, which has brought about much change, the […]
