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Trailblazer employers will not have to shell out tax on cash rewards for taking on apprentices, it has been confirmed. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA), in its Trailblazer Apprenticeships Funding Rules 2014 to 2015, said it “considered” the payments exempt from VAT, but recommended getting Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) approval anyway. The document […]
News
A Leicester-based training provider has been slapped with an inadequate grading by Ofsted after failing to carry out criminal checks on staff working with learners under 18. Qdos Training Ltd was inspected in February and although the report, published on Thursday, April 9, found “good” success rates and managers with “a clear strategic vision”, it […]
With notable past experience advising those in the corridors of power on FE, Roger Dawe outlines what he’d be saying if called upon for his views today. Bromley College has been doing relatively well and has been diversifying into new areas — a Career College for hospitality, food and enterprise, the recruitment of 14 to […]
Opinion
Businesses have called on the government to keep faith with its employer ownership of skills pilot despite a damning review of the project having revealed the first stage had resulted in less than 40 per cent of desired starts. A review (pictured below right) of the £340m pilot, which aimed to involve employers in the design of […]
A round 30 days to go and we may know who the next government will be and the damage these ‘wannabe’ leaders are inflicting on the apprenticeship vision might be over. It’s the time of the year when we are talking to this summer’s school-leavers who want to become an apprentice and already several are […]
Sector leaders have welcomed Labour plans announced today to give every teenager face-to-face careers advice — including guidance on “high quality apprenticeships and technical degrees”. Party leader Ed Miliband announced the proposals to improve careers advice as part of Labour’s education manifesto, A better plan for education, unveiled this morning. A Labour spokesperson said it […]
Learners who used the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) to apply for higher education courses at FE colleges were wrongly signed up to advertising, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled. The ICO has told the organisation to change its application form following an investigation sparked by a story in the Guardian in March […]
An independent learning provider that has seen just one learner achieve an apprenticeship since it started running the programme almost two years ago is having its government funding withdrawn after it was branded inadequate by Ofsted. Kats Learning Ltd, a Hampshire-based company with 118 apprentices on hairdressing, business management and customer services frameworks, was issued with […]
The Association of Colleges (AoC) has demanded an inquiry by MPs in the next Parliament into a “waste of scarce funds” after figures revealed the government’s employer ownership of skills pilot has resulted in just 37 per cent of desired starts. A review of the early stages of the £340m pilot, which aimed to involve employers […]
