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> ‘Valuable analysis’ shows 20 per cent of adult funding being spent on learners outside region of the provider > Skills Minister warns SFA that ‘contracts spanning multiple geographic areas…may become less appropriate’ Ahead of funding devolution, exclusive FE Week analysis of Skills Funding Agency figures published this week has found close to £300m (20 […]
News
Growth requests are being offered for the delivery of any of the new apprenticeship standards, FE Week can reveal. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) announced this today as part of a “targeted growth exercise” to increase 16 to 18 and 19+ apprenticeship delivery. An initial statement uploaded onto gov.uk by the agency said the offer […]
Twenty of the country’s most skilled young people have been selected to represent the UK at EuroSkills Gothenburg 2016. Those chosen for Team UK, which was announced today, will go for gold against the most talented young people from more than 30 European countries in more than 35 different skill areas ranging from engineering and […]
Julia Von Klonowski looks at how girls could be encouraged into a broader range of digital-related careers. Education, at its best, should allow everyone to have independence of decision, fulfilment and equality. It should enable entrepreneurship, leadership and life balance whatever your gender. Much has been written about the difference between women and mens’ business […]
Opinion
John Hyde raises grave doubts about apprenticeship reform plans. I once owned a small part of a racehorse, which has long since gone to that great pet food factory in the sky. However this introduced me to the world of bookmakers and betting odds, no better demonstrated that Leicester City’s 5,000/1 winning [the football Premier […]
The government should delay the devolution of the adult education budge, because the Skills Funding Agency has still not decided how the system will work for providers that cross regional boundaries, the Association of Colleges has said. Provider groups based in multiple regions have been lobbying the SFA for different treatment under the now-imminent […]
Funding shortfalls remain the top concern among those involved in the FE sector in 2016. Chancellor George Osborne’s u-turn on planned cuts in his November autumn statement failed to allay anxieties throughout the sector. If the government had hoped for at least a few Brownie points, ministers forgot the age-old law of politics —it’s not […]
One of the UK’s largest legal firms has turned its back on new apprenticeships as a way of training lawyers. Clifford Chance told FE Week that it had rejected the three Trailblazer apprenticeship standards for lawyers, which are now approved for delivery by the government, because they were “not the right model” for its training […]
Funding is still the biggest source of worry, the latest FE Week and Policy Consortium survey of over 730 sector leaders has found. It topped the list of concerns once again in the third annual FE Week sector survey — which was carried out by FE and skills experts from the Policy Consortium. The latest […]
