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High achieving FE leaders are being sought by the Education and Skills Funding Agency to support other colleges in need of improvement. The National Leaders of FE programme, launched today, is part of a package of support for the sector first announced by education secretary Justine Greening in July which also included a £15 million […]
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The principal of Bishop Burton College has resigned amid “allegations of mismanagement”. Jeanette Dawson OBE is understood to have informed the college of her decision over the weekend, and staff have now learned of this. The college, rated ‘good’ by Ofsted in January, provided a full statement this afternoon to FE Week, when asked for […]
The government knew apprenticeship starts would drop dramatically after the levy was introduced in May, the education secretary has claimed. Justine Greening was quizzed on the 61 per cent fall in starts since May compared to the same period of time last year, which was revealed in official government statistics earlier this month, during a […]
Three Conservative MPs have today been named as apprenticeship ambassadors by skills minister Anne Milton. Maria Caulfield, Stephen Metcalfe, Trudy Harrison are all tasked with championing the opportunities and benefits of apprenticeships, to encourage people from all ages and backgrounds to consider taking one up. But it begs the question, why weren’t the appointments cross-party? […]
A long-awaited report on whether the government’s forecasting tool to predict apprenticeship starts is working has caused dismay over “seriously flawed” assumptions. Cambridge Econometrics won a £15,000 contract in March to assess the Department for Education’s apprenticeships projection tool, that looks ahead to resulting spending requirements under the new apprenticeship levy-based system. In its tender […]
Attempts to recruit a permanent chief executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships are still ongoing, six months after the process was launched. FE Week learned at the start of this academic year that the latest round of interviews would be taking place over three weeks up to the end of the first week of October. […]
Two FE colleges are celebrating Ofsted success this week after climbing from a grade 3 to a grade 2. Burton and South Derbyshire College was ranked ‘good’ across the board after its inspection on September 26. The report, published on October 20, commended the college for taking “extensive and effective steps” to improve provision, with […]
The reforms to apprenticeships have so far been demonstrably disastrous, says Simon Ashworth, who is pleading for a serious rethink April 2019 will be seen as the Big Bang for the government’s apprenticeship reforms. This is when smaller non-levy-paying employers will join levy payers on the Apprenticeship Service (TAS), and when – in theory – […]
Opinion
End-point assessment has hit crisis point – as FE leaders warn that the first wave of learners are reaching the end of their courses without a final test in place. FE Week has crunched the latest government stats and found 790 apprentices started on various standards in 2016/17 without an organisation in place to deliver […]
