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‘apprenticeships’
Call centre staff at a training provider have enrolled onto an apprenticeship programme to improve their skills. Twenty workers at Intraining, part of NCG (formerly Newcastle College Group) have also joined the programme so they can offer support to those inquiring about apprenticeships. Each apprentice will be “assigned two hours of assessment time and two […]
News
Simon Bartley’s school memories could have come straight out of an Enid Blyton novel. Educated from the age of eight at a Catholic boarding school in Lancashire, by the sounds of it, he enjoyed an idyllic childhood filled with tuck boxes and wholesome boyish pursuits. “There used to be a school train just like in […]
Profiles
The number of apprentices working in MP’s offices are on the rise, just as young people undertaking an unpaid internship in Parliament has become a hotly contested issue. Voluntary help is a tradition in politics that goes back several decades and at a time when job prospects are increasingly bleak, political graduates both from further […]
The shadow minister has hit out at the disregarding of further education in the overhaul of the ICT curriculum. Education secretary Michael Gove announced a consultation on withdrawing the existing National Curriculum Programme of Study for ICT at the BETT Show last week. However, Gordon Marsden MP, shadow minister for FE, skills and regional growth, […]
Hundreds of people have been affected by the postponement of an apprenticeship programme led by a major provider. Zenos, a provider of ICT apprenticeships, has told around 300 of its 19+ candidates that there will be a “short delay” to their programmes, which were due to start today (January 9). The training provider, which is […]
Hundreds of apprentices and employers gathered for City of Bristol College’s Apprenticeship Awards evening. Now in its fourth year, it recognises the achievements of the college’s students, who completed their framework by the end of July and their employers. Students and their employers received a range of awards on the evening, including Apprentice of the […]
Bulletin
The Deputy Prime Minister helped put the icing on the cake when visiting the Colchester Institute to set out plans for the new Youth Contract. Nick Clegg visited the institute last month where he set out the government’s commitment to getting all young people earning or learning. While on the visit, he met with students, […]
In my previous life as a college tutor, January was always the month of the annual student awards evening. Each year we would dutifully send in our list of worthy candidates. The brief was fairly succinct: nominees must have been enthusiastic learners who attended fully and punctiliously. They must of course have produced work of […]
Opinion
A former college principal has spoken exclusively to FE Week of his shock after being chosen to receive a Knighthood for his services to further education (FE). Geoff Hall, who left New College Nottingham (NCN) after seven and a half years in May 2010, is one of just 27 people to receive the order in […]
