Potteries Educational Trust
‘apprenticeships’
Launching an apprenticeship programme is a big challenge for any private sector organisation. At Barclays, we set an ambitious target at the start of this year to take on 1,000 young people not in education, work or employment and took the programme from conception to getting our first apprentices into work within four months. The […]
Opinion
There is no doubt that the government’s introduction of Raising the Participation Age (RPA) to age 18 will present a significant business development opportunity to work based learning providers. For those unfamiliar with the DfE proposals, the RPA is being introduced in two phases: for 16-17 year olds in August 2013 and for 17-18 year […]
Entrepreneur Doug Richard is to lead an independent review into the future of the apprenticeship programme in England. The former Dragon’s Den investor has been commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Department for Education (DfE) to look at how the government can build on the record number of new apprentices. […]
News
On the 18-21 June I’m taking a four day break from being Policy Officer for IfL, and will be in Switzerland for a ‘study and media trip’, reporting exclusively for FE Week Each day I will be posting snippets from the trip on this web page, so stay tuned. Also follow the #FEweekontour hash-tag ——————————————————————————————————————— […]
Lewisham College student Connor Holgate is the 1,000th apprentice to be signed up by The Skills People this year. The bartender at Shepherd Neame’s Ye Olde Whyte Lyon in Kent has started a Level 2 hospitality apprenticeship with the College. Connor said: “My ambition is to run my own pub. Being an apprentice will teach […]
Bulletin
“My father gave me two pieces of advice: ‘don’t do shift work’ and ‘join the civil service,” says Graham Hoyle, of his early careers education. Growing up in Barton Hill, a “tough, inner-city” area of Bristol, he wanted to join the police force, but years of watching his father work long, unsociable hours at the […]
Profiles
Providers delivering in the workplace will receive almost 40 per cent less funding when they are forced to switch from Adult Basic Skills (ABS) Certificates to Functional Skills qualifications in August. The current version of the Learning Aim Reference Application (LARA) shows that while providers receive £505 for each ABS qualification they deliver, under Functional […]
The head of a subcontractor has called the high management fees used by some FE colleges a “rip off”. “The colleges get away with it because they can,” the source, who wished to remain anonymous told FE Week. “Subcontractors simply don’t have the clout to turn around to their local college and say up yours, […]
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) have announced that Doug Richard, described as an entrepreneur and founder of School for Startups, is to lead an independent review into the future of apprenticeships. The BIS statement say “the review will examine how apprenticeships can continue to best meet the needs of employers, individuals, and the wider […]
