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The number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) in England is at its lowest quarterly level for nearly a decade, according to government figures out today. There were 809,000 16 to 24-year-old Neets for April and June — the lowest since 2005 and down 125,000 on the same period last year. […]
News
The government has backed down on its GCSE entry requirement plans for early years educator apprenticeships. It had been planning to make grade C or above English and maths a requirement for course starts from next month, rejecting Functional Skills quals, as reported in FE Week in February. The Department for Education (DfE) claimed its […]
Students across the country were this morning finding out how they performed in their A-levels and deciding their next steps — and pictured above are Derby College’s Daniel Buckley, Lara White and Micha Davis. According to UCAS data published in July 2014, the total applicant numbers for higher education this year are up by 4 per […]
Stewart Segal outlines the response of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers to the IPPR’s Remember the Young Ones: Improving Career Opportunities for Britain’s Young People report. The report from IPPR sets out a number of recommendations to address the continuing issue of high levels of youth employment. There is no easy solution to […]
Opinion
Apprentices should be no older than 23 at the time of starting their course, a new report from the left-of-centre Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank has recommended. The 52-page report, called Remember The Young Ones: Improving Career Opportunities For Britain’s Young People (pictured below right), says that only in exceptional circumstances should those aged 24 and […]
The appointment of Nick Boles (pictured) as Skills Minister following the promotion of his predecessor, Matthew Hancock, has led to questions about whether he will have enough time in the role to learn about the FE sector, its challenges and its successes included. Here, Association of Colleges (AoC) chief executive Martin Doel and Association of […]
Concerns about proposed new apprenticeship funding models remain despite an update on reform plans from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The interim statement from BIS comes three months after its consultation on the two new possible funding models closed having elicited more than 1,400 written responses. The consultation looked at how employers might […]
A crackdown on rejected claims for apprenticeship certificates has been launched in a bid reduce the number of rejections from its current rate of almost a third. The Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards (FISSS), the organisation which awards certificates for apprenticeships and verifies that they have been completed, has revealed 104,130 (29 per […]
New Skills Minister Nick Boles said he hoped one in four young people would study for the government’s flagship tech bacc, despite it only being offered by five colleges. In his first parliamentary questions session, Nick Boles was asked by Labour MP Lyn Brown what progress had been made on the introduction of the technical […]
