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An Essex-based lead provider that was allocated nearly £2m of Skills Funding Agency cash last academic year has ceased trading, FE Week understands. Making Your Mark — which also traded under the name Lota Training — told the agency last week it was going out of business. The firm, which was visited by former FE […]
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Speakers at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ (AELP) autumn conference in Leeds addressed a number of issues, including rising apprenticeship numbers and FE loans. Association chief executive Graham Hoyle explains. The autumn conference of AELP traditionally addresses the immediate challenges facing training organisations in the employment and skills sectors and the event in […]
Opinion
The provider behind the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programme has defended handing over taxpayers’ cash to the firm whose staff it trains. Elmfield Training, which was allocated £41m by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) for the current academic year, said it was “only right to share costs” of its programme with Morrisons. The payments — understood […]
Forty providers are exempt from funding rules that ban introductory apprenticeships where more than 10 per cent of learners are out of work, FE Week can reveal. The 40 were over the limit before its introduction this year and so were told to carry on — although they have been ordered to try to hit […]
A national training provider with nearly £2.5m of contracts last year has gone into administration with the loss of 40 jobs. The move has affected the education of 450 learners handled by Birmingham-based Skillsfinder UK Training. The firm, set up last year, had contracts with lead providers Total People and Remit. It also dealt with […]
Falling apprenticeship numbers among 16 to 18-year-olds have come as no surprise to Peter Cobrin, from Apprenticeships England, who looks at how to stop any further declines. So now the truth is out — government figures reveal a ten per cent fall in 16-18 apprenticeships. Let me provide some answers as to why this is […]
Two Midland-based training providers have made the shift from delivering apprenticeships for lead providers to dealing directly with the Skills Funding Agency following success in a pilot scheme. Leicestershire’s Steve Walker Associates (SWA) and Derbyshire’s Aspire Achieve Advance (3AAA) have become prime contractors for the first time after winning deals with the agency. The reward […]
The boss of an Essex-based training provider has said a local college was refusing to pay its apprenticeship bill amid an “unfounded claim” his firm had gone bust. John Baker, managing director of DB Training, issued a statement on his firm’s website that said no funding had been received from Harlow College for “the past […]
A training provider that helped deliver one of the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programmes at Morrisons is shedding a third of its 600-strong workforce, it has been claimed. Two in every three of Elmfield Training staff were warned on October 4 they could be facing redundancy, according to a worker who wanted to remain anonymous. Documents […]
