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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 […]

Opinion

Exclusive: Minimum price tag for apprenticeships to stop ‘race to bottom’

Apprenticeships will have a minimum price tag attached to them for the first time after the apprenticeship levy is introduced, FE Week can reveal. A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills official told delegates at a Capita conference on apprenticeships and traineeships, in Manchester, that the current funding caps would be replaced with new upper […]

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Students protest over college’s plan to axe courses

Students protested today outside Burton and South Derbyshire College over plans to axe their courses. The college confirmed to FE Week that all performing arts, painting and decorating, animal care, brickwork (excluding apprenticeships), and entry level three motor vehicle courses for 2016/17 could be scrapped next academic year, under plans now being consulted on. The college blamed […]

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First ever Ofqual fine to an awarding organisation over thousands of late results

Ofqual has announced that its’ first ever fine to an awarding organisation will be for City & Guilds, over the late issuing of more than 22,000 results. The qualifications and exams regulator published a notice of intention to impose the £38,000 financial penalty yesterday. An Ofqual spokesperson confirmed to FE Week this “would be the […]

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£100m more funding found for apprenticeships and traineeships

The government has found almost £100m of additional funding for apprenticeships and traineeships through the latest round of growth requests, FE Week can reveal. The figures were confirmed by the Skills Funding Agency on Tuesday (June 28), which said that it had funded “all credible growth cases” — although the amount of cash involved was […]

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Employers demand credible and recognised staff, says Education and Training Foundation manager

Sue Southwood reflects on the findings of a consultation looking into what employers want from reformed functional skills. Employers tell us again and again that their main concern — and the biggest threat to economic growth — is a lack of workforce skills. These concerns were highlighted once again during our consultation with over 500 […]

Opinion

Apprenticeship levy pilot helping employers make the most of their levy funds

Tanja Kuveljic, chief executive of the charity Believe in Young People, discusses one approach to matching young people with the right options for work and helping employers to make the best use of the apprenticeship levy. It is less than 12 months until the introduction of the government’s apprenticeship levy, and there are still a great […]

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