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FE Week’s most viewed articles in 2012

FE Week has quickly built a reputation for being a high quality weekly printed newspaper, but we also publish many of our articles and all our supplements online. In 2012 the FE Week website received 798,204 page views from 172,161 unique visitors, with an average visit duration lasting two minutes and five seconds.

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Tesco pulls ad for short courses

Multinational supermarket firm Tesco has pulled its advertising for nine-month apprenticeships following intervention from FE Week. The company, which boasted revenue of more than £64bn last year, had a posting on its website up until Wednesday, January 2, inviting applications for short-term apprenticeships. FE Week spotted the advert and questioned Tesco about it. A spokesperson […]

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Poor proxy for real skills

The success of a college needs to be measured in broader terms than success rates alone, says Daniel Khan When I was a principal of a large college of FE and HE, my managers, governors and I looked at the chief inspector’s annual report  to give us a qualitative position of the sector and one […]

Opinion

Camping courier apprenticeships get short shrift

The National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) has been continuing to advertise adult apprenticeships of less than a year, months after the government announced plans to clamp down on short programmes. In early December FE Week found the official NAS Twitter account tweeting a link (see end of article) on its vacancy matching website to 70 campsite […]

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The UK’s first WorldSkills competitor shares his story

Who would have thought a careers event attracting thousands of young people to Birmingham would have roots leading to a Spanish dictator’s palace? As organisers of this year’s Skills Show UK revealed 70,000 people attended the three-day event, the UK’s first WorldSkills competitor told FE Week of the show’s beginnings. Doug Hill, now aged 77, […]

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Let’s value technical education

The CBI welcomes the Richard Review on apprenticeships, says Neil Carberry. But any shift  to a new system will have to be carefully managed so that it does not undermine existing provision and opportunities One of the constant cries from the FE sector is that it is too often forgotten by ministers who invest political […]

Opinion

Supporting employer incentives

There is much to welcome in the Richard Review (although paper exams should stay and employers should not design new qualifications on their own), says Sally Hunt of the University and Colleges Union The Richard Review’s emphasis on an apprenticeship being a form of education to be held in high regard and its efforts to […]

Opinion

Neil Bates, CEO, Prospects Learning Foundation

When he was 24 Neil Bates was married and wanting to start a family. He saw decades of job security ahead of him at the civil service where he’d been for two years securing providers to retrain the unemployed. But there was something missing: the chance to make a real difference. So, spotting a job running a […]

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Richard Review angers AELP

A review of apprenticeships that called for workplace tax breaks has been angrily rejected by the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP). It said that Doug Richard’s review of apprenticeships “created a hugely damaging picture” from its front cover illustrated with various tools to its “lack of understanding”. It also said that “some of […]

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