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Plans for a new training scheme to equip young people with “the confidence, skills and experience needed to find work” has been announced. FE minister Matthew Hancock has revealed a potential traineeship model, which could be in place by September 2013, and would see 16 to 24-year-olds not in education or struggling to find work […]
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Hundreds of FE workers are facing redundancy after Pearson announced it was planning to close an adult education branch of the business with a loss of £120m. Pearson in Practice, which is built around Melorio, a company bought by Pearson two years ago for £99.3m, is launching a 90-day consultation on the firm’s future. Changes […]
A new code of conduct at the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) for dealing with queries about providers has sparked concerns that “subjective and third-hand” official advice could be dished out. The Service Standard sets out how NAS handles calls from employers looking into apprenticeships. It outlines how NAS aims to put small and medium-sized enterprises […]
Plans for a new training scheme to equip young people with the “confidence, skills and experience needed to find work” has been announced. FE minister Matthew Hancock today revealed a potential traineeship model, which could be in place by September 2013, and would see 16 to 24-year-olds not in education or struggling to find work complete “flexible and […]
More than 550 staff are facing an uncertain future after Pearson announced it was dropping its UK adult education business with a loss of £120m. The firm revealed the plans for Pearson in Practice, which has around 5,000 learners, this morning with news of a consultation, set to last 90 days, on the future of […]
The Voice of Apprenticeships Conference: Apprenticeships 4 England supported by: The National Apprenticeship Service. 13.03.2013
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A shadow minister has said that the lack of a “proper” national marketing budget to inform mature students of a new loans system is “potentially disastrous”. Gordon Marsden, the FE shadow minister, was talking to FE Week after the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) announced a £6.5m local communications and marketing budget to […]
A promised list of banned subcontractors, due out last November, has no one to go on it. In August, the Skills Funding Agency said it would produce the list “alongside the register of training organisations” to include subcontractors that the agency refused permission for lead providers to use. “We will refresh this list each time […]
A London-based social enterprise company that worked with young adults to help them to find jobs has gone into administration. The Walwyn Trust is believed to have left scores of youngsters unsure of their futures. Miranda Cook, from Cambridgeshire, contacted FE Week claiming that her 17-year-old daughter, Charlotte, a Walwyn apprentice, was not paid last […]
