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Bursary scheme announced for early years apprenticeships

The government today announced a £2m apprenticeship bursary scheme for the early years profession. Learners aiming at a career in early education will be able to apply for a bursary worth up to £1,500, with a further £300 available for more training, from September. There will be up to 1,000 bursary places available. Elizabeth Truss, […]

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Apprenticeship search tool ‘on the way’

Potential apprentices will soon be able to find their route into a vocation more easily with a new online search tool currently under development, according to the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS). Vic Grimes, divisional apprenticeship director for NAS in London and the South East, told providers about the service at an event in North West […]

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Report points at skills system’s six ‘key problems’

Six “key problems” in the skills sector have been identified in a new Labour report called Talent Matters — why England needs a new approach to skills. The interim report of the party’s skills taskforce — made up of Creative Leadership and Skills Ltd managing director Jacqui Henderson, South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership chair […]

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Overcoming adversity through adult learning

A beauty apprentice from Somerset has battled against dyslexia, won a national skills contest, started her own business, looked after a young child – and won this year’s Apprentice of the Year award. Twenty-year-old Emma Rogers struggled at school but began to thrive when she enrolled on an NVQ level two beauty apprenticeship at Weston […]

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Everyone should have a chance to learn

Matthew Hancock celebrates Adult Learners’ Week. It is a chance, he says, for  people to seek out opportunities they might never have considered before All of us in the further education and skills sector have a part to play to ensure that everyone in this country, regardless of their background, can be trained in the […]

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LEPs can articulate the needs of business

The 39 local enterprise partnerships really do want to raise skill and employability levels as a fundamental to driving local growth, says David Frost Perhaps one of the most dispiriting aspects of working with local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) is that skills and employability feature at the top of all of their agendas. But if the […]

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Consider all the options

The institutional bias towards a university education is unfair on young people, says Spencer Mehlman  I am not against universities. They are incredible places for learning, with some of the most interesting and enthusiastic teachers you could ever meet. For many young people they will be the “right” next step. But the drive towards university […]

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Principal leaves after Ofsted blow

The principal of City College Coventry is to leave his job after the Skills Funding Agency demanded “fundamental changes” following a disastrous Ofsted inspection report. After 16 years in post and two previous poor inspections, Paul Taylor (pictured) was hit with grade four (inadequate) results across each inspection headline field last month. We have made […]

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College wins Morrisons’ contract

The contract to deliver the country’s biggest apprenticeship programme has been won by NCG (formerly Newcastle College Group). The Academy Apprenticeship and qualifications programme of supermarket giant Morrisons will change hands from current provider Elmfield to NCG from August. The contract will be managed by the college’s Intraining division, which works with more than 20,000 […]

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