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The government is remaining tight-lipped over whether results of a surprise second allocation window for the register of apprenticeship training providers will be unveiled before the key reforms go live. The first round of applications for the new register, which providers have to be on if they want to deliver apprenticeship starts from the start […]
News
A new Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network was launched by skills minister Robert Halfon this morning. The organisation, chaired by Nus Ghani MP (pictured right), will be geared at promoting diversity among employers and encouraging more people from underrepresented groups, including those with disabilities, women, and members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, onto […]
Lord Baker has won a major concession in the House of Lords which will force all schools to give FE providers access to their pupils, a move which he concedes will likely be universally hated by them. The move to amend the government’s Technical and Further Education Bill, put forward by Lord Baker and his […]
In a week of two halves, a private training provider plummeted from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’ in one of Ofsted’s most damning reports ever, while the first FE college to open in over 20 years was finally graded ‘good’. Platinum Employment Advice & Training Limited received the lowest Ofsted grade across the board, with inspectors finding […]
The government is on the hunt for a permanent director to run its transaction unit following the area reviews process – a job which co-mes with a £140,000 salary comparable to that earned by FE’s busiest civil servant, Peter Lauener. An advert for the role was recently posted by the Department for Education, with a […]
Employers including the private healthcare giant Bupa have been criticised for not employing anyone on apprenticeships they developed, after FE Week found three dental standards which have had no learners in 18 months. Analysis of latest government data shows that three apprenticeship standards – dental laboratory assistant, dental practice manager, and dental technician – were […]
Your weekly guide to who’s new, and who’s leaving. Lizann Lowson has been appointed assistant principal for further education at City of Bristol College. She joins from her previous role as head of young people at Hull College Group, where she lead the further education curriculum for 14 to 19-year-olds. She brings a total of […]
Movers and Shakers
The new apprenticeship programme was designed to put employers in the driving seat, but the contract the SFA will make them sign places them in a risky situation, says Smita Jamdar. As the jedi master Yoda once observed, “always two there are, no more and no less: a master and an apprentice”. If only life […]
Opinion
UTCs perform a valuable function – don’t write off the whole enterprise based on misleading statistical comparisons with schools, says Nick Crew. The success of University Technical Colleges has been called into question lately, with several closing down, and even Michael Gove, who introduced them, weighing in to label them a failure. Yet UTCs perform […]
