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Labour to call for 100 more University Technical Colleges by 2020

The Labour Party is expected to back calls to establish 100 more University Technical Colleges (UTCs) by 2020, despite a string of poor Ofsted gradings for existing UTCs. Labour leader Ed Miliband (pictured above) will accept a series of recommendations from the Adonis Review, ‘Mending the fractured economy: Smarter state, better jobs’.  The review, written […]

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Skills Funding Agency abolishes relationship managers

Providers with Skills Funding Agency contracts will no longer have a dedicated relationship manager, following staffing cuts at the agency. In a letter sent by agency deputy director Nick Wilson to providers yesterday, the agency said from July the new central delivery service (CDS) would be the first point of contact for queries about contracts, […]

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New cross-party commission on apprenticeships launched by thinktank

A new cross-party commission to examine how apprenticeships can help to bridge the skills gap has been launched by the thinktank Demos. The Commission on Apprenticeships will be co-chaired by the Conservative MP Robert Halfon and Labour’s Lord Glasman, and is due to meet for the first time in the next month. The group will […]

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Looking deeper at the ’earn or learn’ policy debate

With the Tories and Labour coming up with strategies to help young people off JobSeekers’ Allowance and into a job or back to the classroom, Mark Corney assesses the importance and implications of such policies. The Conservatives and Labour are squabbling over who came up with an 18 to 21 ‘earn or learn’ strategy first. […]

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Upturn in 16 to 18 apprenticeship fortunes

The fortunes of 16 to 18 apprenticeships appear to be changing with the first year-on-year rise for the third quarter (Q3) of the academic year since 2010/11. The number of under 19 apprenticeship starts for Q3 of the current academic year was 18,400 — the same period last year was 17,300, in 2011/12 it was […]

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Sue Pember, education consultant

A veteran of the skills sector, Dr Sue Pember has worked under eight Secretaries of State, from David Blunkett to Dr Vince Cable. But despite having left her government job for a life of freelance consultancy work earlier this year, the 59-year-old mother-of-one still won’t say who was her favourite boss. “I definitely have favourites, […]

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World Class Apprenticeships

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Counselling pensioner Robert a winning learner

A 79-year-old who counsels people with mental health issues and a 22-year-old who has started a charity to promote science to girls were among the winners at Adult Learners’ Week Awards. A total of 16 awards were given out to individuals, projects and employers at the event in London on Monday (June 16), organised by […]

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New report calls for more ‘earning and learning’ in bid to cut youth unemployment

A report out today from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills has called for more ‘earning and learning’ with the UK having experienced a fall in the number of young people combining work with learning. Precarious Futures? Youth employment in an international context noted no other European state saw the same fall in the […]

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