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Government acts on ‘conflict of interest’

The government has set up a Skills Funding Agency-led review to look into the issue of potential conflicts of interest where awarding organisations also deliver education, FE Week can reveal. Ofqual, the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) are also on board in a task and finish group […]

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It’s time for impartial advice for learners

The Education Select Committee looked at the issue of careers guidance and produced a report that questioned the impartiality of schools now tasked with providing the service. Graham Hoyle OBE puts forward his suggestions to remedy the problem. Lord Baker of the Baker-Dearing Trust has proposed that at age 14, pupils should make a choice […]

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Much ‘to be decided’ on model for trainees

Traineeships were put firmly on the FE agenda by sector minister Matthew Hancock this month when he revealed plans for a new pre-apprenticeship scheme. Chris Jones takes up the issue and explains what he thinks needs to be considered when the final traineeship model is drawn up. Further education Minister Matthew Hancock’s recent announcement about […]

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Redefine apprenticeships, says thinktank

Apprenticeships should be redefined as “intensive three-year training programmes” to help curb the 31 per cent A-levels drop-out rate, new research revealed. The Policy Exchange thinktank released a report with several recommendations and said there needed to be “a clear alternative route offering high quality technical or vocational provision”. It named apprenticeships as a “key […]

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What it means to offer a true apprenticeship

We need to send out a clear message about apprenticeships — don’t dumb down the brand, says Graham Hasting-Evans. An independent review of apprenticeships published in November called on the government to improve their quality and make them more focused on bosses’ needs. Its author, Doug Richard, entrepreneur, educator, former Dragon’s Den star and founder […]

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Providers ‘anxious’ over growth cash

Training providers said they could be left thousands of pounds “out-of-pocket” after the government unexpectedly doubled functional skills rates. The Association of Employment Learning and Providers (AELP) is currently in talks with the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) about the impact English and maths rates more than doubling has had upon growth requests from providers to […]

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Rise in apprenticeships as HE wanes

With the cost of new tuition fee arrangements seeming to hit the popularity of higher education, EAL’s Ann Watson looks at the rising star of apprenticeships. The end of 2012 brought with it revealing figures from two of the most important bodies in the UK’s education sector. For the first time, the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) revealed […]

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Apprenticeships: new year, new agenda

Apprenticeships made the news time and again in 2012 with a host of reviews. Graham Hoyle, from the AELP, explains what he thinks should be on the apprenticeship agenda for 2013. As ministers consider the direction they intend to travel following the various reviews of apprenticeships that took place in 2012, it is worth doing a […]

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Minister in traineeship web launch

Further education Minister Matthew Hancock (above right) took part in his first webinar to launch a government discussion paper on traineeships. Broadcasting live from the Department for Education and in partnership with FE Week, the minister spoke to an online audience of around 750 on Thursday, January 10. The 30-minute webinar was an opportunity for the […]

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