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If anybody knows what the future might look like for FE and skills with an apprenticeship levy on the horizon it would be the CITB, which has been operating such a system for half a century, as Steve Radley explains. Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget yesterday launched a flurry of policy initiatives. Of course, the headline-grabber […]
Opinion
The government is set to embark on its fifth review of apprenticeships in just four years after plans for a levy on large businesses to fund growth were announced in the summer Budget. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) confirmed it would run a consultation on its plans for the levy before announcing […]
News
Mick Fletcher takes a close look at the July 2015 Budget and considers what it might mean for FE and skills. Yesterday’s emergency budget said little directly about FE. We’ll need to wait for further announcements expected imminently; perhaps the promised paper on productivity, or the government response to the dual mandate consultation? Nevertheless there’s […]
A new apprenticeship levy for large employers stole the Budget show yesterday as far as FE is concerned, but Julian Gravatt gives a wider view — while also looking at that levy issue. There is a vast amount of official information about the summer budget. Here are the key points — Chancellor George Osborne presented the […]
George’s Osborne’s budget today included plans for an apprenticeship levy, a living wage which could reach £9 per hour by 2020, and further details on previously-announced policies such as the ‘youth obligation’. Here, we bring you reaction from FE sector leaders as it happens… Professor Alison Wolf, King’s College academic, life peer and author […]
It’s less than 24 hours to go before what is possibly the FE and skills sector’s most feared Budget ever — but should we really be expecting the worst, or even much at all, asks FE Week reporter Paul Offord. Chancellor George Osborne announces his Budget in the House of Commons from around 12.30pm tomorrow (follow the […]
A levy on large businesses to help fund apprenticeship growth has been announced by Chancellor George Osborne. Mr Osborne’s budget announcement comes after Professor Lady Alison Wolf called for such a levy, but on all employers, in a report released by the Social Market Foundation last week. Employer and FE sector bodies are still digesting […]
The clock is well and truly ticking with 880 hours to go before the UK’s top apprentices jet off to Brazil to take on the best of the rest at WorldSkills 2015 — and FE Week and City & Guilds want to wish them all the very best in the quest for golden glory. Yes, […]
A newly-established House of Lords committee on social mobility launches its first investigation tomorrow — and apprenticeships are set to be route of investigation. The group of a dozen Lords, chaired by Labour peer and former Bristol East MP Lady Corston (pictured above), will look into the transition from school to work. It will hear from officials from the […]
