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Race is on for 3m apprenticeships

Apprenticeship target a ‘significant challenge’ The creation of 3m apprenticeships by 2020 is a “significant challenge” that can only be achieved with more funding and employer engagement, sector leaders have said. The Conservatives made the target acentral plank of their General Electionmanifesto.However, it would require a huge increase on the 2,208,100 apprenticeship starts over the five academic years from 2009/10 […]

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Priory ordered to leave Trailblazer group

Priory Central Services has been ordered to leave the healthcare employers’ Trailblazer group after it was hit with a grade four Ofsted rating, FE Week can reveal. The employer provider, which runs the national medical chain that includes the famous London Priory rehabilitation centre attended by celebrities, has also been served with a notice of […]

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Question marks hover over BIS future

Concerns about the future of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) may spark an investigation by a powerful committee of MPs, its former chair has warned. Rumours are rife that BIS may be scrapped in this Parliament, with its various functions split between other departments such as the Department for Education and Department […]

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Farewells to sector ‘champion’

Sector leaders lined up to pay tribute to the efforts of former Business Secretary and self-proclaimed FE-saviour Dr Vince Cable as a “champion of the sector”. The senior Liberal Democrat became one of the most high-profile casualties of the General Election on May 7, when he lost his Twickenham seat to the Conservatives. He has […]

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Javid — will he be Treasury stooge or FE friend?

Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed the Conservative MP Sajid Javid (pictured) as Business Secretary in his new majority government. He replaces Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat who held the post for the last five years until he lost his seat in Parliament on May 7. Reporter Freddie Whittaker delves into the background of the […]

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Enter apprenticeships, centre stage

The target has been set and the election won — now the government must set about achieving 3m apprenticeships. But what exactly is being aimed at and is it even the right target, asks Nick Linford. As the dust settles on a general election result few predicted, the FE and skills sector will be considering […]

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‘Let’s agree there should be no relaxation of standards in pursuit of 3m apprenticeships’

David Cameron could have spoken about many policies in his agenda when he addressed the nation outside Number 10 Downing Street having been re-elected as Prime Minister — but he chose apprenticeships. David Allison considers the task ahead. No matter who you talk to in the education sector, we are all waiting with bated breath […]

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Look at inspection results, and look at management

Research in the last edition of FE Week showed how the proportion of new grade three results was up this year versus the same period last year. Jayne Stigger considers what might be behind this rise. It was reported in FE Week that 33 per cent of the 57 general FE colleges (GFEs), sixth form […]

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Colleges in peril — but looking beyond merger

Lewisham Southwark College and Greenwich Community College are both considering merger as part of reviews with the FE Commissioner having been rated as inadequate. Dame Ruth Silver argues for a broader assessment of South East London FE that does not necessarily entail merger. Here we go again, round and round the mulberry bush, looking at […]

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