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Labour MPs put their names forward for BIS committee chair

Labour MPs Iain Wright (pictured above left) and Roberta Blackman-Woods (pictured above right) have launched bids to challenge Adrian Bailey for the chair of the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee. Nominations for the post opened on Thursday after it was confirmed that the chair would be elected from Labour’s stock of 232 […]

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Woodcock’s journey up FE ladder under way

John Woodcock, the Labour MP for Cumbria’s Barrow and Furness, was appointed Shadow Education Minister for Young People last month. It’s a post that has seen a fair amount of change, with Mr Woodcock taking over from Yvonne Fovargue after she became Shadow Veterans Minister having had the education role for just seven months. She […]

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Taskforce under fire for ‘earn or learn’ name

Prime Minister David Cameron’s new troubleshooter taskforce that aims to ensure young people are “earning or learning” has started “on the wrong foot” — young people can do both, sector leaders have pointed out. Downing Street announced on Tuesday it was launching implementation taskforces, made up of high-ranking Conservative MPs, to ensure government priorities spread […]

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The Indy Scene

At the prestigious city headquarters of the Bank of New York last month we presented the first group of 12 managers from Aramark, the incumbent caterer on the BNY (Bank of New York) Mellon site, with their level four hospitality higher apprenticeship certificates. Andrew Main, the UK chief executive for Aramark, and Jill Whittaker, HIT […]

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Prime Minister’s apprenticeships ‘troubleshooter’ taskforce officially unveiled

[slideshow_deploy id=’36007′]   This is Prime Minister David Cameron’s new “troubleshooter” taskforce set to track government progress on its 3m apprenticeship starts by next parliament target. It contains eight MPs including Skills Minister Nick Boles and his predecessor Matthew Hancock, who is the Cabinet Office Minister and also chairs the group. They will be joined […]

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Amanda Spielman, chair, Ofqual

Amanda Spielman does not consider herself a pedant, but is a self-confessed hater of unclear or “fuzzy” language. She doesn’t want to sound like someone who writes to newspapers complaining about the state of modern English and signing off, as she puts it, “Disgusted, from Tunbridge Wells”. “Of course language has to grow and change,” […]

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A call to demonstrate what FE and its workforce can offer

Andrew Harden reflects on FE events at the UCU 2015 congress in Glasgow. The University and College Union’s (UCU) first annual congress under the new government took place in Glasgow recently. The two-day event included a special sector conference attended by delegates from across the FE sector and a joint conference with colleagues in higher […]

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Apprentice employers honoured at London awards ceremony

Apprentice employers have been honoured at a glitzy London ceremony at the Oxo Tower. The third national AllAboutSchoolLeavers Awards were judged using employee satisfaction surveys, with research on every aspect of young people’s working lives — from job satisfaction and career progression, to company culture and work-life balance. Nineteen awards were up for grabs on […]

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Government reviews FE scrutiny info

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a review of the data it publishes on FE and skills every quarter that allows government to be held to account for its policies. A consultation on the Statistical First Release (SFR) —information on 19-plus government-funded FE programmes in England — is underway until the […]

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