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The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) today unveiled its “tight” timetable for handing out £650m of delayed European Social Fund (ESF) cash — with delivery completed in just 18 months, FE Week can exclusively reveal. It is planning to run a “sequence of procurement” that must be finished by the end of September next year at […]
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Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee chair Iain Wright accused Business Secretary Sajid Javid (pictured above) of “talking a good game” as the pair clashed over apprenticeships today. Mr Wright, who is currently overseeing six committee inquiries with at least half touching upon apprenticeships, raised the issue of programme starts with Mr Javid during business […]
Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw told the House of Lords Social Mobility Committee today that government should do more on promoting vocational routes. He appeared in front of the committee flanked by his chief operating officer, Matthew Coffey (pictured below right), to give evidence on the role of the education watchdog in providing skills and employment […]
Prime Minister David Cameron today called on businesses to back the apprenticeship levy — only for Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis to later warn how it would “wipe out” the supermarket giant’s entire annual training budget. Mr Lewis (pictured above) issued the warning as he called for a “balance to be struck” between allowing firms to […]
Prime Minister David Cameron today outlined his vision of post-16 education and training as one in which learners are either on an apprenticeship or at university — casting further doubt over the future of two-year classroom-based college courses. Just days after FE Week revealed Department for Education plans to get 16-year-old vocational learners onto apprenticeships after […]
– Government announces plans for colleges to deliver more apprenticeships for 17-year-olds – FE leaders question whether new policy is simply ‘smoke and mirrors’ to conceal DfE cuts The government has announced plans to end two-year study programmes for many 16 to 18 vocational learners and instead opt for progression to apprenticeships from the age […]
Jackie Moores has started in her role as principal of Tameside College following the retirement of Peter Ryder after more than six years in the top job. Ms Moores joins the Greater Manchester college with more than a decade of teaching roles under her belt from Salford City College, most recently as deputy principal. Ms […]
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Too few learners per classroom and marketing strategies that pit college against neighbouring college are among the issues preventing the sector from being “sustainable”, according to FE Commissioner Dr David Collins. In a letter to all chairs and principals of FE institutions, dated October 30, Dr Collins said that, with the sector as a whole having […]
Association for Learning Technology chief executive Dr Maren Deepwell (pictured above left) will be among a number of witnesses giving evidence to MPs investigating the digital economy tomorrow. It will come the day before Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw (pictured above right) is due before the House of Lords Social Mobility Committee. The House of […]
