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Adult Skills Budget in line for 19 per cent funding cut

The government’s Adult Skills Budget is facing a cut of 19 per cent by 2016, the long-awaited Skills Funding Statement (SFS) has revealed. The document, which was expected following the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement in December, was released today. It shows that the Adult Skills Budget will fall from its current rate of £2.467bn to £2.004bn […]

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WorldSkills competitions open as learners fight for spot on plane to Abu Dhabi

Apprentices and learners are being urged to put their skills to the test and fight for a spot on the plane to Abu Dhabi in 2017  by entering this year’s WorldSkills UK competitions. Entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den panellist Theo Paphitis is leading the call for entries, after registration opened today. Applicants have until March 21 […]

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Could another nosedive in apprentice numbers be around the corner?

Government figures this month indicated advanced apprenticeship starts had plummeted since the introduction of FE loans and with more policy changes afoot David Harbourne asks whether we could be in line for another big drop. Official statistics have confirmed a massive fall in the number of adults (25+) starting level three apprenticeships. In the first […]

Opinion

Building a skilled construction workforce between the gaps

While the building trade is a big employer of apprentices, the wider construction industry suffers skills gaps elsewhere. But Laing O’Rourke has teamed up with FE and skills bodies, including a number of colleges, to boost the development of industry-needed skills, explains Alison Lamplough. he construction industry is a major UK employer and, as well […]

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Peter Marples, director and owner, Aspire Achieve Advance

In early 2006 Peter Marples, fresh off the back of a merger between his provider Assa and training giant Carter & Carter, was vaunted in national press as “one of the least known and more powerful people in further education”. When I tell him this, he laughs and describes it as “an inappropriate comment by […]

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Hayes in FE ‘comeback’ after year out

Former Skills Minister John Hayes has called for more to be done to improve careers advice for young people in what he jokingly called his “comeback” to FE. Speaking on FE and skills for the first time since leaving the role, Mr Hayes said the sector had a lot to be proud of. But, Mr […]

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£20m scheme to recruit 500 extra maths teachers for FE sector unveiled

Graduate maths teachers who choose to teach in FE colleges will get a bonus of up to £10,000 under a £20m plan unveiled by the Government to recruit 500 new maths teachers in the sector. Skills and Enterprise Minister Matthew Hancock announced the new measure today in the wake of changes to traineeships, apprenticeships and […]

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Edition 91: Julie Robinson, Steve Whitehead

  Greater Manchester independent learning provider has appointed a new chief executive. Julie Robinson  has taken the helm at Bolton-based Alliance Learning having risen through the ranks from sales and marketing manager 20 years ago. She started her career at Gullick Dobson as an office junior before joining Alliance Learning in 1994 as a sales […]

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Survey shows employers can’t fill 22pc of vacancies

Nearly a quarter of vacancies in the UK have gone unfilled because of a shortage of much-needed skills, a survey of 91,000 UK employers has revealed. The Employer Skills Survey, by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), found that 22 per cent of the 655,000 vacancies in the UK remained untaken because employers […]

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