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The system of prison learning contracting will come under the spotlight in a review ordered by Justice Secretary Michael Gove. The former Education Secretary wants the inquiry to, in part, look at how the Offender Learning and Skills Service (Olass) — currently contracted to three general FE colleges and one independent learning provider — operates. […]
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Government apprenticeship reform adviser and former BBC Dragons’ Den investor Doug Richard has been charged with sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) told FE Week today that there is “sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest” for Richard to be charged. The 57-year-old multimillionaire, whose 2012 Richard Review […]
The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has called for a new fund to help improve the quality and access to apprenticeships. The proposal was part of its submission, lodged with partner organisation the Centre for Social Inclusion (Inclusion), to a consultation which closed on Friday (September 4) on the government’s 2015 spending review. A […]
John Woodcock has spent a lot of his time since being appointed Shadow Minister for Young People following May’s General Election telling the FE and skills sector that he’s in “listening mode”. But in the four months the MP for Barrow and Furness has been in post, just what has he heard? “There is a […]
Profiles
Leicester College has branched out from simply delivering apprenticeships in a college sector first by taking the “unique” step of registering with the Skills Funding Agency as a Trailblazer apprenticeship assessor. Leicester, which taught around 2,400 apprentices last academic year, can provide end-point assessment for level two property maintenance operative apprenticeships, developed by the property services […]
An independent learning provider that faced losing its Skills Funding Agency (SFA) contract after an Ofsted inadequate rating over safeguarding fears four months ago has managed to hold onto its public funding deal following a good Ofsted judgment. Leicester-based firm Qdos was given three months’ notice that its SFA contract would be torn up after […]
Skills Minister Nick Boles has broken his promise to the House of Commons Education Select Committee that there would be “many fewer” new apprenticeship Trailblazer standards than the frameworks they will replace by 2017. He told committee members in January that he was worried about the “unbelievable proliferation” in the number of frameworks, which currently […]
TeamUK finished in seventh place at this year’s WorldSkills competition, held in Brazil. The team took home three gold medals, three silver, two bronze and 21 medallions for excellence – winning 46 medal points in total. Beauty therapist Rianne Chester, 21, who runs Beauty By Rianne, was handed the award for best overall WorldSkills competitor […]
The sector skills councils for health and for justice today announced their merger — but also said they would continue to act separately. Skills for Health (SfH) and Skills for Justice (SfJ) have “integrated” and a joint statement from the two organisations said the move would “maximise the synergies for customers and stakeholders”. John Rogers […]
