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NHS to abandon ‘outstanding’ apprenticeship scheme in North East and Yorkshire

Regional office to ditch successful direct delivery in favour of alternative providers

Early years provider buzzing after ‘outstanding’ first inspection

Inspectors praised ‘highly motivated’ apprentices at Leicester’s Bright Bees Nursery

Slash tuition fees to £6k to fix tertiary system ‘bias’, says think tank

Final EDSK report sets out roadmap to a more coherent post-18 education system

How fake skills cards have opened the door to building site blaggers

The person purporting to be Adam Philip showed me “evidence” the CSCS card he was selling would evade anti-fraud smart card checker machines (designed to stop fraudsters like him), thereby getting me access to work on construction sites. Severe skills shortages across the construction sector, arguably made worse by recent qualifications reforms, have sparked a […]

HTQs should be at front of Labour’s growth levy queue, say researchers

Public First models economic returns if level 4 and 5 technical quals are funded through a reformed apprenticeship levy

AELP conference 2024: Insights from ex-minister and new CEO

FE Week rounds up some of the key speeches

The robots have already marched into apprenticeships

AI tools could save training providers big bucks and improve quality. But at what cost?

‘Outstanding’ for Dyson’s axed degree apprenticeships

Dyson says it would prefer to pay £250,000 per student to avoid the “burden” of degree apprenticeship paperwork

The rock ’n’ roll career of MBKB boss Mark Bremner

To some, Mark Bremner is known as the boss who lets staff at his training business take as many holidays as they want. But to others he’s a builder, a failed barrister, tech nerd, record label founder, fantasy fiction writer and a frustrated rock music merchandiser. He was also once made bankrupt. His journey to […]