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The government has announced how it will split £2bn over the next financial year between 39 local enterprise partnerships (Leps) across the country — which will spend a proportion of that cash on FE projects. All the Leps submitted strategic economic plans three months ago which set out their bids for a slice of the […]
News
Almost 100 young people were today (July 7) confirmed as UK squad members for next year’s WorldSkills competition in Brazil. Following three days of gruelling tests in their different skill areas, 98 young people landed a spot on the squad, offering them the chance to go on to compete at WorldSkills in Sao Paulo next […]
Former Skills Funding Agency (SFA) chief executive Geoff Russell will head up the board of directors at Positive Outcomes, the training provider has announced. Mr Russell (pictured), who left the top job at the SFA in July 2012 after holding the post since the Agency’s inception in 2010, will become chairman at Positive Outcomes Training […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
Opinion
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 […]
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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