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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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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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Area reviews, apprenticeships and the large employers’ levy were all topics that were raised at a Westminster Education Forum on reforms to vocational qualifications in England. The word “bewildering” was used more than once throughout the forum, highlighting a view that routes through vocational education lack clarity. Warwick Sharp (pictured above), deputy director, vocational education […]
The government announced last month that it was relaxing the rules on which providers can run traineeships. Liz Williams reflects on why this could be a positive move, if it helps boost the number of starts, so long as it is managed with care by the Government. From the start of the next academic year […]
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