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Martin Doel, FETL Professor of Leadership in FE and Skills, Institute of Education, UCL

After eight years at the helm of the Association of Colleges, Martin Doel left in 2016 to take up the world’s first university chair in FE leadership. FE Week paid him a visit in his new post at UCL to find out how his life as an academic is shaping up. Since leaving the Association […]

Profiles

Learn from recent history to avert apprenticeship disaster

Government figures have revealed a dramatic 61-per-cent drop in apprenticeship starts between May and July, compared with the same period last year, following the levy launch. As the sector waits to see if this forces a major rethink, FE Week’s deputy editor Paul Offord looks back to another apprenticeship policy catastrophe that sparked a quick U-turn. […]

Opinion

BREAKING: First official apprenticeship levy figures show a 61% fall in starts

Total apprenticeship starts for May, June and July fell a staggering 61% compared to the same period last year. Provisional figures published by the DfE this morning, as part of the Statistical First Release, include the apprenticeship starts after the levy system began on the 1 May. All apprenticeship starts from May (with the exception of […]

News

First-ever cohort of degree apprentices begin studying with Leeds Trinity University

Leeds Trinity University welcomed its first ever cohort of degree apprentices this week. The new course has taken on 15 apprentices currently employed at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, who will all study towards a level six degree apprenticeship in chartered management, accredited by the Chartered Management Institute. Lasting three to four years, the course […]

Bulletin

Frustration as 5% tolerance on English and maths extended indefinitely

The five-per-cent tolerance on the notorious English and maths condition of funding rule will apply “until further notice”, the Department for Education has said today – but exasperated sector leaders want the policy to be scrapped altogether. The rule states that any 16- to 18-year-old student who does not have at least a C, or […]

News

First City Training slumps to ‘inadequate’

A health and social care training provider has been rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted in a report that warns of “weak” management of apprenticeships. The report out today on First City Training said it was not doing enough to improve the learning and training experience of students, and its apprenticeship provision came in for heavy criticism. […]

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New senior role for former SFA boss after Positive Outcomes disaster

A former Skills Funding Agency boss will take over as chair of the work-based learning specialist JTL, nine months after another major provider he had been overseeing went into administration. Geoff Russell will take over from Dr Ian Livsey when his term in office ends in December. Mr Russell, who was chair of major Derbyshire-based […]

News

Manchester starts tumble by over a third, post-levy

Apprenticeship starts in one of England’s largest cities have shown a “notable and significant decline” since the introduction of the levy, according to local training providers. A total of 50 “established and reputable apprenticeship providers with a strong track record of apprenticeship delivery” completed the Greater Manchester Learning Provider Network apprenticeship impact survey, which compared […]

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WorldSkills 2017: Team UK given send-off at Parliament

Thirty-four of the UK’s most gifted young tradespeople were told that the country “desperately” needs their “skills and inspiration” during a special send-off event ahead of the WorldSkills 2017 competition in Westminster today. Anne Milton delivered a passionate keynote speech to the competitors in Team UK flying out to Abu Dhabi tomorrow. The apprenticeships and […]

News, WorldSkills 2017