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Two official apprenticeship vacancy websites are still running five months after one of them was said to be closing down. A spokesperson for the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) told FE Week in March that the old National Apprenticeship Service vacancy matching website would be taken down in May, once the new ‘Find an apprenticeship’ service […]
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This is the man with the daunting task of implementing a new cross-government IT system for large employers to pay into the proposed apprenticeship levy — and he’s got to do it in just 18 months. In an exclusive interview with FE Week, Cabinet Office Minister and ‘earn or learn’ taskforce chair Matthew Hancock opened […]
Large employers should be able to hand out apprenticeship funding earned under the government’s proposed new levy system to smaller firms, ministers have been told. The call was made by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in its response to the government’s consultation on the plans, which closed on October 2. It said large employers […]
A panel of five representatives from industry and trade unions was drawn together by City & Guilds to discuss the findings of the Industry Skills Board (ISB) report Making Apprenticeships Work. The report includes 25 recommendations from the ISB for improving the way that apprenticeships are delivered. It was launched the same day as the […]
Skills Minister Nick Boles (pictured above) addressed concerns about how the quality of apprenticeships will be policed as the government drives towards its target of creating 3m apprenticeship by 2020. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) raised the possibility, in its consultation on the proposed large employers’ apprenticeship levy set to be introduced […]
An upcoming Ofsted review of apprenticeships is likely to lay bare “quite a lot of bad practice,” Skills Minister Nick Boles (pictured above) has said. The results of Sir Michael Wilshaw’s much-awaited inquiry are expected this month and Mr Boles told Conservative Party conference-goers on Tuesday (October 6) that he did not think they would […]
Former student Samantha Harvey has returned to Derby College as the first head gardener at its Broomfield Hall land-based studies campus. Ms Harvey’s role will involve supporting students in work experience programmes and leading work to open the grounds to more visitors. She studied horticulture at the college 15 years ago, before training and working […]
Movers and Shakers
Cash raised by the proposed new large employers’ apprenticeship levy should be combined with government funding in a central pot available to all employers of all sizes under a “simple” new system, the government has been told. The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) made the proposal in its submission to the government consultation […]
Apprentices could be asked to sign contracts upon enrolment requiring them to deliver careers advice, Skills Minister Nick Boles told the Conservative Party conference in Manchester today. Leading a panel including an apprentice and Crossrail chair Terry Morgan, Mr Boles called for help from delegates in Manchester in persuading young people to take up apprenticeships […]
