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Click here to download the supplement From a little makeshift office at the back of the main room at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on Monday and Tuesday (March 9 and 10), I witnessed first-hand the incredible success of our first Annual Apprenticeship Conference. A packed room heard from an incredible line-up of speakers […]
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The FE sector has to face up to low levels of literacy and numeracy among staff if it wants to improve learners’ maths and English, an Ofsted official has warned. Marina Gaze, Ofsted’s deputy director for skills and FE made the comments at the BKSB Skills Conference focussing on English and maths. Ms Gaze’s comments […]
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The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has announced it will fund courses which do not fit with the qualifications and credit framework (QCF) as regulator Ofqual begins to dismantle the controversial system. In guidance issued to awarding organisations, which have welcomed the move to change “bureaucratic” rules, the Agency said its new system would be “framework neutral”. It comes after Ofqual […]
Learner needs for “frequent retakes” need to be taken into account amid Ofqual-recommended improvements to Functional Skills, Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB) chief executive Stephen Wright (pictured left) has warned. He welcomed the qualification watchdog’s plan to make Functional Skills “more relevant and more reliable” and said “FAB is supportive of the drive to increase […]
Approval of FE sector leadership and management has declined since last year, according to the results of an Education and Training Foundation (ETF) survey released today. The survey revealed that 44 per cent of the 255 respondents thought the standard of leadership and management in the sector was good or very good, while 22 per […]
Ofqual has issued a four-point improvement plan for awarding organisations (AOs) in a bid to make Functional Skills qualifications “more valid and more reliable”. The qualifications watchdog today published the report on its review, launched last year, of level two English and maths Functional Skills, which concluded that they “need to be improved”. The report said […]
An online conman who sold fake City & Guilds and OCR certificates from his Darlington cul-de-sac home has been sentenced 80 hours of unpaid work. Edexcel, AQA and Ofqual logos were also used by Martin Bowman as he produced the counterfeit paperwork. However, Darlington Magistrates’ Court heard that most of his customers asked for refunds […]
Former college principal Professor Ed Sallis will lead a taskforce looking at teaching and accreditation of maths and English for learners unable to reach D grade GCSE, the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has revealed. Professor Sallis, who was principal of Jersey’s Highlands College from 1997 to 2012, will chair the seven-member steering group, announced at […]
Ofqual has been warned it needs an alternative system in place when it scraps the qualifications and credit framework (QCF). The qualifications watchdog confirmed on Monday (December 8) that, following a 12-week consultation launched in July, it would remove the QCF rules. The removal of the rules, along with the QCF bank of shared units, […]
