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Department for Education taking over FE, skills and higher education

The Department for Education (DfE) will take over responsibility for FE, skills and higher education. Until now, the further and higher education sectors have been under the remit of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). But a spokesperson for Number 10 told FE Week: “The DfE has taken on responsibility for higher and […]

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Delayed apprenticeship levy update in limbo after Boles quits

FE Week understands that a long-awaited update to the apprenticeship levy guidance was due to be released tomorrow morning (July 14). However, skills minister Nick Boles resigned this afternoon, which makes it likely the government will delay any policy announcement before appointing and briefing a replacement. Mr Boles announced at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers […]

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Skills minister Nick Boles quits

Nick Boles MP has resigned from his role as skills minister. In a post on his Facebook page, posted at 3.40pm today, Mr Boles said that it was the “right time for me to return to the back benches”. His resignation, which he confirmed on Twitter, comes almost exactly two years to the day that […]

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Sector reacts to departure of skills minister

As broken by FE Week this afternoon — Nick Boles has quit as skills minister, so we’ve gathered immediate reaction from sector leaders. Martin Doel, chief executive of the Association of Colleges (AoC), said: “Mr Boles has set an ambitious agenda and, though he did not redress the cuts in funding over the preceding five […]

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West Nottinghamshire College’s top apprentices honoured at House of Lords

Thirty of West Nottinghamshire College’s top apprentices have been honoured in a special event at the House of Lords today. The worthy winners, chosen from among the college’s 13,000 apprentices, each received an award in the fifth annual West Nottinghamshire College Celebration of Apprentices. The event, held at Westminster overlooking the River Thames, was intended […]

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Leadership concerns drag down college Ofsted report to ‘inadequate’

A college has been hit with an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating in a report that raised grave questions about leadership and management, just a few weeks after its chair and vice-chair resigned without explanation. FE Week reported on June 18 that Amersham and Wycombe College’s chair and vice-chair of governors, Jenese Joseph and Andrew Walker, had […]

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All recommendations accepted to get more people with learning difficulties or disabilities on apprenticeships

The government has agreed to implement all 14 recommendations from a taskforce commissioned to explore how access to apprenticeships can be improved for people with learning difficulties or disabilities (LDD). The taskforce was jointly commissioned by skills minister Nick Boles and minister for the disabled Justin Tomlinson (both pictured above), and both of their departments […]

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Choose academic or technical route at 16 – radical government plans reveal

The post-16 vocational qualification system is set for a radical overhaul to replace 20,000 courses with “15 high-quality routes”, according to a government report to be published later today. And each of the 15 routes, first reported exclusively by FE Week in May, will controversially only be available by a single awarding organisation. The first […]

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Streamlining technical education routes for highly-skilled workforce

If we are to compete in today’s global economy against low-wage countries such as China, industry needs to have a highly-skilled technician workforce. Many other areas of our national life, whether it is hospitals, the armed services, or agriculture, today also depend on highly-skilled technicians if they are to operate efficiently. But the simple truth […]

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