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Commercialism and creativity ‘are key’ in post-cuts market

Where can colleges and independent learning providers look as government funding cuts bite, asks David Hughes. It says something about public sector funding when a 20 per cent cut in funding is met with a certain amount of relief. The long-anticipated Skills Funding Statement (SFS) 2013-2016 raised a number of emotions and issues for me. […]

Opinion

Coming to terms with FE loans

With the FE loans having launched a year ago, Mike Cooper looks at how the system is bedding in and why previously-unwilling providers might want to re-evaluate their thinking on what is a potential income stream. Quietly, the new round of online applications for 24+ advanced learning loans has opened. Learners aged over 23 meeting […]

Opinion

The Great FE and Skills Survey 2014

It is perhaps not surprising that when FE Week and the Policy Consortium invited staff across the sector to highlight the issues that really concerned them they should paint a rather troubling picture. More than a thousand people responded to the opportunity to record what worried them most about the state of FE, and their […]

Opinion

Matthew Hancock MP, skills minister

With two offices across two government departments, two Secretaries of State as bosses and one of the broadest ministerial briefs around, life is hectic for Matthew Hancock. But while it certainly isn’t cricket — a game he regrets not having the time for anymore — things seem to have gone quite well for our 35-year-old […]

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Young people ‘hungry for apprenticeships’ says MP

Local MP Angie Bray dropped in to Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College’s apprenticeship fair to find out more about the programme. The Ealing Central and Acton MP joined more than 30 organisations, including Lloyds Bank, Ealing Council and the Army, who were promoting their apprenticeship opportunities to young people in West London. Ms Bray […]

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How Uncle Sam is pioneering apprenticeships

The UK often looks to Europe for inspiration on apprenticeships. Tom Bewick suggests a glance across the pond instead. American apprenticeships are perhaps an unlikely example of a world-class system in the making. Yet, in his state of the union address in January, President Barack Obama said he wanted, “more on-the-job training, and more apprenticeships […]

Opinion

New careers guidance rules ‘don’t go far enough’

New rules which mean schools will be forced to tell their pupils about FE and apprenticeships “don’t go far enough”, the Association of Colleges (AoC) has warned. The Department for Education (DfE) published new statutory guidance on careers advice this month, which for the first time explicitly requires schools to promote vocational courses — using […]

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College steps in to save apprentices

More than 160 engineering apprentices are set to be transferred to City College Norwich from an independent learning provider facing closure. The college said the East Anglian Group for Industrial Training (Eagit), based in Norwich and formed in 1967, is set to close in July. The college will take on 146 level three and 22 […]

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Apprentice funding plans rejected in consultation

The full results of the government’s apprenticeship funding consultation last year have been released for the first time — revealing the vast majority of provider and employer respondents did not support the government’s proposed reforms. The consultation ran from July until October and in November Skills Minister Matthew Hancock announced the government would be seeking […]

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