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Boles justifies apprenticeships favour

Skills Minister Nick Boles has justified the government’s emphasis on apprenticeships at the cost of adult education by pointing to research showing the programme had a 43 per cent greater return on public investment. Speaking on day one of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers annual conference [click here for the FE Week supplement] […]

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Government making ‘dog’s breakfast’ of apprenticeships, says new Shadow Minister for Young People John Woodcock

The government is making a “dog’s breakfast” of apprenticeships by making providers wait until after next month’s Budget before learning if they’ll get paid for provision already carried out, Shadow Minister for Young People John Woodcock has said. In an exclusive interview with FE Week, he said the block on the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) […]

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Spend apprenticeship funding ‘more effectively’ with training providers which identify demand, AELP urges government

Apprenticeship funding could be “more effectively spent” with independent learning providers which can provide evidence of additional demand from employers, the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) will say today. The AELP will renew calls for a review of apprenticeship reforms and a simpler contracting system as it launches its annual conference in London. […]

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Conservatives ‘U-turn’ over enforced apprenticeships

The Conservatives have been accused of making an “apparent U-turn” over enforced apprentice recruitment. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) plans to make public bodies such as schools, hospitals and prisons take on apprentices were announced on Sunday, June 14. But it comes after Conservative MPs opposed previous Labour proposals for enforced targets on […]

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New committee chairs promise era of collaboration

Newly-elected Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee chair Iain Wright has outlined his plans for greater collaboration with education’s fellow newly-elected committee chair Neil Carmichael. Labour MP Mr Wright (pictured above left), who beat former BIS committee chair Adrian Bailey in the MPs’ vote on Wednesday (June 17), said he was “determined to hit […]

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Ofsted gets scrutiny boards after ‘transparency’ criticism

New regional scrutiny committees will consider complaints about Ofsted from September as the education watchdog acts to address transparency criticisms. The eight bodies, each made up of an Ofsted official not involved in inspections along with an “external” provider leader put forward by “appropriate national representative bodies”, will rule on internal reviews of complaints about […]

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Festival of Education 2015: day one coverage with Lord Baker and Gazelle chief Fintan Donohue

Hundreds of teachers and tutors are descending upon the grand setting of Berkshire’s Wellington College for two days of classroom-related talk, debate and fun. Among the day one speakers yesterday were university technical colleges boss and former Education Secretary Lord Baker and Gazelle chief executive Fintan Donohue. They took part in a number debates and panel sessions and are featured below, […]

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Sector meets Shadow Minister for Young People in ‘listening mode’ as Woodcock takes part in FE Week event at Parliament

New Shadow Minister for Young People John Woodcock MP said he was “in listening mode” at a special FE Week event at the Houses of Parliament to introduce him to the sector. The event on Tuesday (June 16) gave 180 representatives from providers, colleges and awarding bodies the chance to tell the Labour MP what […]

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Is it really time for the UK to go Dutch?

Kirstie Donnelly considers whether in looking abroad for a model skills system — with the Netherlands offering the latest template — we neglect lessons that might be learned closer to home. The latest country to emulate, apparently, is the Netherlands, with Skills Minister Nick Boles this month advising MPs to look there for a ‘transferable […]

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