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Apprenticeships and one-on-one careers advice will play a key role in Liberal Democrat plans to cut youth unemployment to “the lowest levels since records began”, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will announce today. The Liberal Democrat leader is set to announce his ambition to get an extra 100,000 young adults into work, education or training. […]
News
Funding, change, workload and bureaucracy topped the list of concerns in the second annual FE Week sector survey. Worries about English and maths teaching and the “broad direction of travel” for FE followed close behind as hundreds took the opportunity to express their feelings on FE and skills with the General Election just days away. […]
Dame Asha Khemka issues an impassioned plea for FE and the benefits it can bring as the countdown to voting day nears its end. There has been something quite worrying about the discourse in this General Election campaign. Aside from the usual political point-scoring, we’ve seen something more sinister — an undercurrent of fear. Fear […]
Opinion
It’s more than five years since Ruth Sparkes first applied her FE and skills marketing knowledge to the sector’s use of Twitter — so what has changed since then? I wrote my first article on colleges and Twitter in 2009, so I’m guessing that by now every college and independent learning provider (ILP) must be […]
A Conservative-led government would use a £200m fund from bank fines issued in the wake of the Libor scandal to create 50,000 apprenticeships and traineeships specifically for unemployed 22 to 24-year-olds, David Cameron will announce today. The Prime Minister is expected to say that the money from the fines, which were issued to those banks […]
I read a blog the other day that talked about how there was so much political consensus around in our sector at the moment and how this was a ‘job done’ for the sector’s PR and lobbying efforts. The evidence for this was a skills hustings event where representatives from the Conservatives, Labour and the […]
Vocational education charity the Edge Foundation is the new lead sponsor for the Skills Show, it has been announced. Show organisers Find a Future revealed today that the three-year lead sponsorship deal with City & Guilds, in place for the first Skills Show event, was ending. The pricetag of the Edge Foundation’s one-year sponsorship of the […]
While the major political parties’ focus on FE and skills is to be welcomed, they need to look beyond qualifications reform says Tim Oates. When you recognise that banging your head against a brick wall actually hurts, the most sensible course of action is to stop doing it. Strange then, that while all the major […]
More than a third of the workforce at NCG’s 1,200-worker Intraining division were today facing redundancy following one of the biggest job loss announcements to have hit the sector. The loss of a major Department for Work and Pensions training contract and “uncertainty” over the renewal of European Social Fund (ESF) programmes, along with fewer […]
