Apprenticeships

Frustration as ESFA’s course directory crashes and delays crucial apprenticeship provider updates

Providers have been blocked from updating their apprenticeship offer to prospective employers for a month after the Education and...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Ofsted, Pay

AELP conference highlights: Leaders talk funding rate review, the levy and staffing crisis

Ofsted, AoC, IfATE and CBI among speakers at AELP conference

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships

Lifetime Training’s grade 3 Ofsted report published

Inspectors criticise focus on financial performance and starts over quality

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Ofsted to hit England’s largest apprenticeship provider with grade 3

Quality concerns found at Lifetime Training, which delivers to big-name employers and the civil service

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Higher education

New ‘method’ to quality assuring higher and degree-level apprenticeships launched

It is part of the second phase of reforms to how EQA works for end-point assessment

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Burghart sets ‘ambitious’ apprentice achievement rate target and announces feedback tool drop-outs

But AELP chief fears the target will be unachievable

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Top levy-funded apprenticeship providers for past 2 years reavealed

Lifetime Training has continued its dominance

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Skills reform

Provide apprenticeship careers talks or face legal action, schools told

Consultation launched on new duty to give pupils six 'mandatory encounters' from FE and apprenticeship providers

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Apprenticeships, T Levels

Donelan hints at more employer incentives for T Level placements

The further and higher education minister, Michelle Donelan, was quizzed by MPs on the House of Commons education committee...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen