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Government target for 3m apprenticeship starts could be on track as new starts up 4pc

The government could be on track to meet its target of 3m new apprenticeship starts by 2020, according to provisional Skills Funding Agency (SFA) statistics for the first quarter of 2015/16. To hit the 3m target in the next five years there needs to be an average of 600,000 apprenticeship starts per year, or 150,000 per […]

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Boles to appear before Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy

Skills Minister Nick Boles will face a grilling from MPs on the Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy on Monday (January 25). A spokesperson for the committee, created from sub-committees of the Education and the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) select committees, said Mr Boles would be questioned on a number of FE-related issues including apprenticeships, […]

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Lifting of restriction on providers running traineeships brought forward to February 1

The date when the restriction requiring providers to have grade one or two Ofsted ratings to run traineeships will be lifted has been moved forward from August to the start of next month. The announcement was made in the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) Update bulletin published on its website this afternoon. Currently, only outstanding and […]

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Apprenticeship Delivery Board members announced

Members of the Apprenticeship Delivery Board (ADB) tasked with advising the government on how it can hit its target of 3m starts by 2020 have finally been unveiled, five months after its creation was first announced. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) announced “the creation” of the ADB on July 22, but little had been said […]

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Ofsted boss hits out at ‘inadequate’ FE sector

The FE sector is “inadequate at best” according to Ofsted’s Sir Michael Wilshaw, who has also hit out at colleges’ “uniformly weak” careers advice on offer. He is due to make the comments in a speech later this afternoon, called ‘Ambitions for English Education’, for the thinktank CentreForum. “Educational provision, for the many children who […]

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Expansion plans revealed by new 157 group chief Ian Pretty

The 157 Group is set for expansion following a strategic review, chief executive Ian Pretty has revealed in an exclusive interview with FE Week in which he claimed that up to 15 colleges had already asked about signing up. The results of the review were explained at an event in London on Thursday (January 14) […]

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Segal stepping down as Association of Employment and Learning Providers boss and moving to new role at training provider

Stewart Segal will be stepping down as chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) at the end of March to move to a newly-created role at a grade one-rated apprenticeship training provider. Mr Segal will continue in his current role until March 31, an AELP spokesperson said, before starting as the […]

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Growth requests jeopardy for apprenticeships

Providers could be forced to slow down 16 to 18 apprenticeships delivery with their requests for growth going unanswered. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) had been expected to let providers know the outcomes of their requests by January 8 following a shake-up of the process after similar delays last year. The shake-up, instigated by SFA […]

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Confusion over funding for levy-free small businesses

The government was today still unable to say how small businesses who don’t pay into the apprenticeship levy would access funding for the programme — despite them delivering more than 90 per cent of all apprenticeships. From April 2017, employers will have to pay 0.5 of their pay roll costs to the apprenticeship levy, the […]

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