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‘apprenticeships’
A consultation report released yesterday by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) outlines a new loan system for further education learners. Under the proposed plans FE students in England will be able to apply for a loan that pays the upfront cost of a course on their behalf. Minister for Further Education, Skills […]
News
The dramatic increase in apprentices aged above 25, reported by FE Week back in June, has been picked up by The Guardian newspaper today. Page 10 (also online) of the national newspaper expanded on the issueusing research published by the House of the Commons. Click here to download. Jeevan Vasagar and Jessica Shepherd, writing for The Guardian said: […]
An advisory group set up by government to manage the new National Careers Service has publically denounced the reduction in services for young people. In a press release published this week, the Group expressed many of their concerns and said that they had considered resigning at a pre-meeting. They said: “At a time when young […]
Lord Sugar has one annually and now MP Robert Halfon is ready to do the same. Andy Huckle (20) was the first MPs Apprentice, and his time in ‘office’ is coming quickly to an end, now Mr Halfon, who is a keen supporter of apprenticeships and was the first MP to employ an apprentice has […]
The government’s new student support funding for 16-18 year olds has come far too late to allow 2011/12 students to make informed decisions, says Education Select Committee. The Committee’s findings accepts that changes to student support needed to be made, but says that the delay in deciding on allocations and the guiding principles for distribution […]
A Labour MP is urging the government to provide apprenticeships for jobless youngsters with small businesses – by using bankers’ bonuses. Introducing a bill under the ten minute rule, the MP for Selly Oak, Steve McCabe, wants training and employment schemes for young people, better careers guidance and help for companies offering on-the-job experience. He […]
At the Association of Learning Providers (ALP) annual conference in London, the Chairman Martin Dunford announced that the representative body would be renamed as the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) with immediate effect. The name-change, which was well received by delegates at the conference, will now be put to members for formal ratification […]
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For the past ten years I have been working for a private training company offering apprenticeships. Previous to this, I spent 14 years in an FE College leaving after reaching the dizzy heights of Director of Studies. Transferring a college based quality system to work based training has been an interesting experience. We have achieved […]
Opinion
The Government’s apprenticeship recruitment target of 203,200 for the financial year to March 2011 was exceeded by 54,000, John Hayes, Minister for FE, announced last week. Particularly striking has been the volume of those apprentices aged 25 and over who started in the first three quarters of this academic year (August 2010 to April 2011). […]
