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Allocation worth up to £440m for delivering apprenticeship training to non-levy employers have been delayed by the Skills Funding Agency, FE Week can reveal. It is understood that everyone who applied for the non-levy funding has been sent a notification on the government’s Bravo e-tendering portal – seen by FE Week – confirming the delay. It […]
News
Update, November 1, 2017: The company has now confirmed to FE Week that it is continuing to operate, following a change of ownership. A private training provider is on the new Register of Apprenticeship Training Provider despite having ‘ceased trading’. Hertfordshire-based Apple Training Academy is listed as a main provider on the list published […]
Almost 75 per cent of applicants to the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers were successful, the Skills Funding Agency has revealed. The full list of providers on the new register has finally been published by the agency (click to download full list), almost 24 hours after providers began to learn their fate via the SFA’s […]
Ashley Terron tells how he nearly didn’t become an apprentice, then went on to win gold for bricklaying at WorldSkills When I was at school, all the kids wanted to be the best at something – the best footballer, the best dancer. For me, building was the family trade so it felt right to go […]
Opinion
Spending priorities for 2017-18 have been set out by minister Robert Halfon in the annual Skills Funding letter. The letter from the skills and apprenticeships minister to Skills Funding Agency boss Peter Lauener has just been uploaded onto gov.uk. There are no surprises in terms of spending plan, with the £1.5bn commitment to support participation […]
Pete Spence explains how Toyota has used skills competitions as a benchmarking exercise to boost standards and develop its workforce Our business ethos is one of premium quality and premium skill. It is fairly obvious how we might go about proving the former: by making premium quality vehicles. But how do you demonstrate premium skill? The […]
A college that has bounced back from a grade four to a grade two is leading the charge on a week that has been good almost across the board. Stanmore College was applauded for its “rapid and significant improvement” since it received the lowest possible grade in September 2015, in a report published March 6 […]
People across the country got involved in National Apprenticeship Week 2017 this week – from Barnsley to Barnet, and Teesside to Truro. Scroll down to see a snapshot of the events that took place to mark the occasion, and download the NCFE NAW2017 supplement for extended NAW 2017 coverage, funding timelines and more. Climb aboard the apprenticeships express […]
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National Apprenticeship Week isn’t just a government thing. Labour’s shadow apprenticeships minister Gordon Marsden also got in on the action, and went on a great British tour of his own, as he explains below. During National Apprenticeship Week we are rightly able to celebrate the thousands of individual successes from young beginners to older workers […]
