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If we really want to deliver diversity, we need a Public Services T Level

The transition to T levels can’t be allowed to leave gaps in place of popular courses fulfilling an important social role, writes Gemma Simmons-Blench

Opinion

Funding obstinacy is killing off apprenticeships that are crucial to our economy

The HGV & Bus and Coach Standards Trailblazer Group has been working with IfATE to rectify a serious funding mishap in 2019 that reduced the funding band from £18,000 to £15,000 for the three-year HGV technician apprenticeship. Like many other industries, we are operating in a very tight labour market. It takes nearly four years […]

Opinion, Apprenticeships

Reinvigorating the apprenticeship brand isn’t all about funding – but that would help too

We need to see an uplift in the separate funding rate, writes Sue Pittock, but there’s plenty more that ministers can do to improve apprenticeships and boost the brand

Opinion, Apprenticeships

14-16 college entry 10 years on: ‘Transformational’ policy plagued with funding and reputation risks

A decade of direct entry has seen nearly 13,000 14-16 students taught in colleges

News, 14-16, Long read

Awarding federation boss resigns

FAB boss steps down after 5 years

News

Student loan changes don’t make apprenticeships more attractive – but they do change the game

New university student loan
terms won’t impact student
choice, says Tony Pitchford, but
they do signal a bigger shift
towards careers-led education

Opinion, Careers

What Building Better Opportunities teaches us about stimulating labour market participation

Locally led, well-resourced and longer-term programmes could see us out of the current crisis in labour market participation, writes Graham Duxbury

Opinion, Workforce strategy

Chris Claydon, CEO, JTL

Chris Claydon has a biography better suited to James Bond than to the chief executive of a training provider for building service engineers. He has flown Apache military helicopters, briefed cabinet ministers on evacuations from the Arab Spring uprisings, and helped save lives by designing countermeasures to the roadside bombs used in Afghanistan. Oh, and […]

Profiles, Apprenticeships, Long read, net zero, Skills reform

Babington CEO steps down

Boss of huge training provider leaves due to ‘personal reasons’

News, Training Providers