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Dearne Valley College’s attendance tenner

Dearne Valley College (DVC) has launched a training allowance and a Job Zone. The training allowance rewards students with a weekly £10 for 100 per cent attendance. DVC is the only college in South Yorkshire to offer all existing and new 16 to 18-year-old full-time students and apprentices a weekly payment in a bid to boost college attendance. […]

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Vocational education the Swiss way

As another review into apprenticeships begins, guest reporter Shane Chowen visits Switzerland and reports on what we can learn from their apprenticeship system “For me the decision was easy. Most of the students at my school got apprenticeships, my dad did an apprenticeship; it’s a normal thing to do here. I’m looking forward to working […]

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Funding rates for functional skills in 2013/14 announced

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has announced the rates for functional skills in the new streamlined funding system for adult learning. English and maths qualifications will be funded at a base rate of £336, equivalent to 5-12 credits in the government’s new “learning aim rates matrix”. But a 1.3 Programme Weighting Factor will boost the […]

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Lead contractors ‘top-slice’ more than £175 million

Lead providers charged more than £175 million in management fees to subcontractors in the 2011/12 academic year, an analysis by FE Week suggests. A Skills Funding Agency (SFA) spreadsheet published on the agency website suggests that contract holders took an average “top-slice” of 23 per cent from subcontractors. It also suggests that subcontractors earned about […]

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Pre-apprenticeships offer the sector a NEET solution

It’s not going to shock you to the core when I say young people often leave school ill-equipped for the workplace. I’m staying clear of schools’ bashing because schools are under all sorts of pressures, and it can be difficult to understand the employment needs of a fast moving economic environment, when you’re predominantly schools’ […]

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Richard Review opens call for evidence

The Richard Review into apprenticeships officially opened its call for evidence yesterday. Doug Richard, who was appointed by the government to lead an independent review into apprenticeships, said he didn’t want to critique the current system, but wanted to look to the future. The entrepreneur and star of the TV series Dragon’s Den said that he would not be the […]

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Lead provider ‘top-slice’ amounts published by SFA

A spreadsheet published by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has revealed how much money lead providers are handing over to subcontractors. The data shows a wide range of ‘top-slice’ amounts taken by prime contractors, ranging from 99 per cent to minus 185 per cent. The SFA said the figures detail the costs and responsibilities taken […]

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HTP Training’s ‘outstanding’ achievement

HTP Training is celebrating achieving a 95 per cent success rate for its apprentices – the best in Southern England. HTP which achieved ‘Outstanding, Grade 1’ status from Ofsted in 2008 is now one of the 12 best training providers in the UK. The announcement was made by Rachael Fidler, HTP’s managing director, during a […]

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Unlocking the secrets of Swiss skills success

On June 18 Shane Chowen took a four-day break from his full-time job as Policy Officer for IfL and travelled to Switzerland for a ‘study and media trip’, reporting exclusively for FE Week What’s clear from day one is that you can’t help but be impressed with the Swiss set-up for apprenticeships. In fact, as […]

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