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Funding reform study finds employers unaware of apprenticeship costs

Government research on apprenticeship funding reform proposals has found that employers were generally in the dark about how much cash their providers got for training. As the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills looks at rerouting apprenticeship funding directly through employers so they can pay for training, its research found that most were unable to […]

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Apprenticeships to the rescue of the High Street

Apprenticeships could help save the country’s “struggling” high streets, according to the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills select committee. Its report on the retail sector called on employers to be “more ambitious about skills training” with the aim of increasing the number of apprentices at level three and above. The report said the […]

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Providers will ‘no longer be able to force employers to take training they want to offer’, says Gove

Routing apprenticeship funding directly to employers will mean providers can no longer “force employers to take whatever training they happen to want to offer,” Education Secretary Michael Gove has said. In a speech at the McLaren Technology Centre, in Woking, Surrey, today on the future of vocational education, he praised the apprenticeship review carried out […]

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Trailblazers, pay and loans all feature as leading apprenticeship figures meet

Far-reaching government reforms were scrutinised at the Apprenticeship Debate, organised by Association of Education and Learning Providers (AELP). The event, held at the Trades Union Congress HQ in Central London, was attended by around 200 delegates from providers, trade unions and government. The topic of discussion was reform proposals emanating from Doug Richard’s review of […]

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Apprentices get new NUS-backed pressure group

A new pressure group for apprentices has been launched by the National Union of Students (NUS). The National Society for Apprentices was officially launched today — day two of National Apprenticeship Week. The NUS said the aim of the new society was to champion the rights of apprentices and represent their views to government. An NUS […]

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Labour taskforce calls for FE progression to determine schools funding

Labour’s Skills Taskforce has called for school funding to be conditional on whether students progress into FE, employment or training. The third report by the group, set up last year to provide independent policy recommendations to Labour, was published today and recommends that funding withheld from affected schools should go towards their careers guidance services. Young […]

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Employing apprentices

The Association of Colleges’ annual HR conference takes place in Nottingham tomorrow and Wednesday. Richard Banks and Geoffrey Mead look at issues on the minds of college HR officers up and down the country.   Hiring apprentices is a great way for businesses to grow their own talent by developing a motivated, skilled and qualified […]

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The Skills Funding Statement offered unpalatable certainty, but did it also help pave the way for the HMRC apprenticeship funding plan?

Adult apprenticeships emerged as a top funding priority for the government in the Skills Funding Statement last month, according to Mark Corney. He looks at the implications this might have for the HMRC funding plan and also 16 and 17-year-old apprenticeships The skills funding statement (SFS), published alongside the Higher Education Funding Council for England […]

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Cuts hit much more than bank balances

Former House of Commons Education Select Committee specialist Ben Nicholls is head of policy and communications at London’s Newham College. He writes exclusively for FE Week every month. When I started writing this column a year ago, I promised myself I’d try not to rant, to get too defensive, or to be one-sided. But when the […]

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