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More focus needed on basic skills

Harvey Young explains why, in his view, the Government is wrong to obsess over apprenticeships and should look to improving basic skills to improve national productivity. The BIS Select Committee’s report on the Government’s productivity plan raised several concerns about the lack of focus on a variety of policy areas, including apprenticeships, but what has […]

Opinion

Agency director to lead levy team at BIS

Skills Funding Agency (SFA) director Keith Smith (pictured) has moved to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to take a lead role in levy implementation. Mr Smith will be on secondment to BIS for the next year, from his SFA post overseeing funding and programmes, while working as director of levy implementation until […]

News

Movers and Shakers: Edition 167

After nine years of service at Bath College, principal Matt Atkinson has announced he will be leaving this summer. Mr Atkinson joined from Andover College, where he was acting principal, in 2007. He said leading the college has been the significant highlight of his career in the FE sector. “The experiences I have had here […]

Movers and Shakers

London colleges in spotlight as two top mayoral candidates battle for budget

The issue of FE’s future in London is hotting up before the mayoral election in May. One of the top jobs in the new Mayor’s in-tray will be leading the capital’s post-16 education area review and the current Mayor, Boris Johnson, has already taken a leading role in the preparations. In an open letter to […]

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Unspent levy money will be used to maintain SME apprenticeship funding, Boles re-assures firms

The government has sought to re-assure small and medium-sized employers (SMEs) there will be enough apprenticeship levy money left over for them. Skills Minister Nick Boles has re-emphasised plans to make SMEs rely on unspent apprenticeship levy funds from larger companies to pay for their training. Mr Boles told the House of Commons this afternoon that the […]

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Former OCR boss Mark Dawe appointed to run AELP

Former chief executive of awarding organisation OCR Mark Dawe has been appointed as the new boss of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP). He will take over from the outgoing chief executive Stewart Segal, who is joining independent learning provider Aspire, Achieve, Advance as director of strategy, policy and funding. Mr Dawe, who […]

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College in difficulties drops back to ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating

City of Bristol College has slumped back to an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating, following an inspection in late January. The report is a setback for the college, which was last rated inadequate in April 2013 but had pulled up its rating to ‘requires improvement’ in June the following year. The education watchdog criticised City of Bristol for […]

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Shadow chief exec appointed of new Institute for Apprenticeships

Rachel Sandby-Thomas (pictured above) has been appointed to the role of shadow chief executive of new Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA). The announcement of the key appointment for the IfA, which will help police employers as apprenticeship reforms take effect, was announced today by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). Ms Sandby-Thomas joined the […]

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Nichola Hay, board director, AELP

Doctors told county-level hockey fanatic Nichola Hay’s parents that she would probably never play sport again after removing a tumour from her knee — but she refused to accept this and was running around again after a year. She credits the steely determination instilled into her by this frightening experience — along with nurturing skills […]

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