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Angela Eagle has been confirmed as the new Shadow Business Secretary. This is what we know: 1 Angela Eagle was born in Bridlington on February 17, 1961, and is aged 54. Her predecessor as Shadow Business Secretary was Chuka Umunna, who was 32 years old when he took up the role in October 2011. 2 […]
News
The summer holidays over, a new contract year starting, let’s silence the press criticism of apprenticeships by producing outstanding performances from our learners, inspired by the stunning results of the UK WorldSkills team. I started my holiday on a Wednesday, for HIT next day the dreaded Ofsted phone call came for a full inspection the […]
Opinion
Providers that flout rules on revealing how much they topslice when subcontracting have been given a November 23 deadline to comply — or face having their funding suspended. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has threated to suspend public money for lead providers that fail to publish their management fee details on their websites. It comes […]
The system of prison learning contracting will come under the spotlight in a review ordered by Justice Secretary Michael Gove. The former Education Secretary wants the inquiry to, in part, look at how the Offender Learning and Skills Service (Olass) — currently contracted to three general FE colleges and one independent learning provider — operates. […]
Government apprenticeship reform adviser and former BBC Dragons’ Den investor Doug Richard has been charged with sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) told FE Week today that there is “sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest” for Richard to be charged. The 57-year-old multimillionaire, whose 2012 Richard Review […]
The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has called for a new fund to help improve the quality and access to apprenticeships. The proposal was part of its submission, lodged with partner organisation the Centre for Social Inclusion (Inclusion), to a consultation which closed on Friday (September 4) on the government’s 2015 spending review. A […]
John Woodcock has spent a lot of his time since being appointed Shadow Minister for Young People following May’s General Election telling the FE and skills sector that he’s in “listening mode”. But in the four months the MP for Barrow and Furness has been in post, just what has he heard? “There is a […]
Profiles
Leicester College has branched out from simply delivering apprenticeships in a college sector first by taking the “unique” step of registering with the Skills Funding Agency as a Trailblazer apprenticeship assessor. Leicester, which taught around 2,400 apprentices last academic year, can provide end-point assessment for level two property maintenance operative apprenticeships, developed by the property services […]
An independent learning provider that faced losing its Skills Funding Agency (SFA) contract after an Ofsted inadequate rating over safeguarding fears four months ago has managed to hold onto its public funding deal following a good Ofsted judgment. Leicester-based firm Qdos was given three months’ notice that its SFA contract would be torn up after […]
