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‘apprenticeships’
The title of ‘college’ appears to be coming back into sector fashion — and even worth fighting for, just ask Newcastle College principal Carole Kitching. Ruth Sparkes considers whether it, like ‘university’, should be protected. After news that Newcastle College Group (NCG) successfully, and legally stopped a mystery outfit calling itself Newcastle College Ltd from […]
Opinion
Labour’s apprenticeship policy, so eloquently presented by Ed Milliband, totally exposes how out of touch his party is with the reality of the country’s skills needs and how the Westminster bubble has removed him from his party’s working class routes. Under his plans, 18-year-old school leavers with three A-levels will go to university and those […]
A National Audit Office (NAO) probe into FE and skills finances may not go far enough in looking at how the sector has been hit by “multiple funding cuts,” National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) chief executive David Hughes has warned. Mr Hughes, a former national director of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), told […]
News
The government has agreed to the automatic scrapping of a rule that forces apprentices to re-sit qualifications they already have after fears frameworks would have to be rewritten to accommodate the change. The five-year rule will be removed from the specification of apprenticeship standards for England (Sase), and it now appears it will be stripped […]
A Hampshire sixth form college has had to go back to the drawing board in its search for a partner with Sixth Form College Commissioner Peter Mucklow having warned it could not function alone financially. Totton College principal Mike Gaston (pictured below, left) announced in December that his college would be seeking a partnership and […]
Staff at Milton Keynes College were among thousands of sector workers up and down the country to have set up events for National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), which launches today (March 9) They created a specialist apprenticeship zone at college that will give learners an opportunity to explore a variety of industries available at all levels […]
World class apprenticeships should be developed to solve a “productivity shortfall”, the International Skills Standards Organisation (INSSO) has claimed. In a report based on research in the UK and overseas, INSSO chief executive Tom Bewick calls for a “real debate about whether continued university expansion is the best policy choice for the 21st century”. He […]
A challenge to complete the “overhaul” of apprenticeships is being put to the next government, as National Apprenticeship Week launches today. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said the decision to reform the way apprenticeships were funded, a gradual increase in the apprentice minimum wage and reaching the two million apprentices target, were all significant […]
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called on young people and employers to “get an apprenticeship” ahead of National Apprenticeship Week. In a one and a half minute video message, which marks the week-long celebration of apprenticeships beginning on Monday, Mr Clegg said every young person had “the talent and potential to succeed”, and one […]
