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Graham Taylor explains why he is not a fan of government plans for new technical professional education (TPE) routes. George Osborne recently joked (he apparently has a sense of humour) that he’s on a 5:2 diet because “in two out of five budgets I eat my words”. Well, number one of these for education should, […]
Opinion
Sadiq Khan, the new mayor of London, has spoken out in support of the “neglected” FE sector — telling FE Week that he will be a “champion” for its work. Mr Khan secured his new post after convincingly beating the Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith by 1,310,143 votes to 994,614 on May 7. He has now […]
News
There are now more than 50 apprenticeship training agencies (ATAs) — but confusion surrounds how many apprentices each one is working with. A dozen organisations were awarded a share of £7m by the National Apprenticeship Service to establish the first ATAs through a pilot scheme in 2009, as part of a drive to encourage more […]
Barbara McDonough reflects on changes she would like to see for the education and training of prisoners. In recent years, significant improvements have been made in education to support prisoners into employment. In particular, education programmes are now geared towards helping offenders get a job or apprenticeship on release, by aligning provision to employer skill […]
The government must do more to promote the newly-expanded FE learner loans, to avoid the danger of low take-up at the start of the new academic year, the Association of Colleges (AoC) has said. The government announced that it would expand FE tuition fee loans to learners aged between 19 and 23 at levels three […]
The government has announced a taskforce to help more people with learning disabilities to access apprenticeships — but admitted that it has yet to finalise the people who will make it up even though it is meeting this month. The announcement comes just two weeks after shadow skills minister Gordon Marsden put a written question […]
> ‘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 […]
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 […]
