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Time to get proactive in order to promote vocational training

Luke Johnson says colleges should be more proactive about publicising the benefits of vocational training to their communities, with help from employers. Time and time again employers like myself will tell you that young people just aren’t equipped with the skills they need to succeed in the world of work. Whether it’s their lack of […]

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Why aren’t former apprentices advising the Government over apprenticeships?

John Hyde accuses the government of hypocrisy through ignoring the group of people who are likely to have the best understanding of related demands and benefits of the vocational training programmes when forming the Institute of Apprenticeships — ex-apprentices. We now know the identity of the employers forming the Institute of Apprenticeships, all graduates. Not […]

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Cameron to break bank fine pledge?

George Osborne has been challenged to reveal in Parliament whether a proposed apprenticeship fund created from Libor fines – promised by the Prime Minister in the run-up to last year’s election – has been scrapped. David Cameron pledged last April that if he won the election, his government would fund 50,000 apprenticeships and traineeships for […]

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Exclusive: National Audit Office to examine provider topslicing scandal

The National Audit Office has said it will “look into” the issue of lead providers skimming outrageous management fees from subcontractors, FE Week has been told. The Public Accounts Committee chair, Meg Hillier (pictured) had vowed last December to raise the issue with the NAO following FE Week’s ongoing investigation into topslicing, which found evidence of […]

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Independent training providers to compete for funding after EU law change

Independent training providers (ITPs) will have to compete for Skills Funding Agency (SFA) contracts following changes to European Union law. The document, Adult Education Budget: Changing context and arrangements for 2016 to 2017, published on January 28, said that contract arrangements would stay the same for the next academic year. But it warned: “In advance […]

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DfE overspend results in 16-18 apprenticeship funding shortfall

Training providers have branded “ridiculous” the overdue news that many of their 16 to 18 apprenticeship and traineeship growth requests have not been funded in full by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA). The SFA announced today that it had awarded an additional £25m to colleges and training providers to deliver 16 to 18 apprenticeships – […]

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Promote FE loans yourself, BIS tells providers

The responsibility for telling learners about new FE loans will lie with providers after the government admitted it had no budget to promote them. Meanwhile, it remained tight-lipped on how much it will be spending on its latest apprenticeships campaign, despite repeated enquiries from FE Week. Loans for learners aged 19 and older are due […]

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Public sector apprenticeship targets to be debated in Parliament

Apprenticeship targets for the public sector and making the misuse of the term apprenticeship an offence will be debated in the House of Commons this morning as the Enterprise Bill gets its second reading. Both measures are included in part four of the bill, which is due to be introduced by Business Secretary Sajid Javid […]

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MPs single out government’s apprenticeship schemes in critical Productivity Plan report

The Government’s much-lauded “Productivity Plan” has been criticised by a committee of cross-party MPs today – with concerns raised over the three million apprenticeship target and new levy. The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) committee in a report published this morning has claimed the government’s plan – heralded as a “blueprint for creating a more prosperous […]

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