Apprenticeships

DfE launches digital service for advertising levy transfers

DfE launch their scheme enabling levy payers to advertise their available funds for transfer.

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Apprenticeships

New Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education chair named

A life peer who stood in the London mayoral election for 2020 has been appointed as the Institute for...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Target apprenticeships at most disadvantaged, Social Mobility Commission tells government

Apprenticeships are failing to reach their social mobility “potential” and must be better targeted at the most disadvantaged, the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

University apprenticeships to be externally assessed

Degree apprenticeships will have to assessed with an industry expert who is independent of the university, under new proposals...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Apprenticeships

Talking about a ‘middle-class’ grab on apprenticeships could send the wrong message

The claim suggests a scarcity of apprenticeships and that only working-class people should do them, writes David Gallagher Gillian...

Jess Staufenberg
David Gallagher
Apprenticeships

Keegan stands firm on keeping levy funding for apprenticeships

The skills minister has restated her stance that apprenticeship levy funding should only be used for apprenticeships, insisting it...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Apprenticeships

How the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is growing in stature

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is “looking forward to playing an even bigger role” following the publication...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

‘Middle-class grab’ on apprenticeships confirmed by new analysis

The apprenticeship reforms are increasingly disadvantaging people from low-income areas, new FE Week analysis has revealed. Since the new-style...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

ESFA to select providers for reapplication to apprenticeships register in random order

Providers on the apprenticeships register will be “randomly selected” to reapply in different phases over the next year, the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden