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Hundreds of jobs at risk as Pearson announces closure of adult education business

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 […]

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The Voice of Apprenticeships conference

The Voice of Apprenticeships Conference: Apprenticeships 4 England supported by: The National Apprenticeship Service. 13.03.2013

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Limited marketing ‘potentially disastrous’

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 […]

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SFA crackdown finds no subcontractors to list

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 […]

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Youngsters stranded by company administration

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 […]

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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 […]

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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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