Education Partnership North East
Andy Burnham is grabbing headlines with his ambition for the MBacc technical education programme. But take-up has been slower...
The mayor wants employers with skills gaps to help commission skills programmes in the capital
But losing providers continue complaints that most winners are out-of-area
Capital funding dished out to providers to target towns with a training provision ‘deficit’
But combined authority leaders urged to be cautious in drawing more funding away from frontline delivery
Delivery is supposed to start next month
Doing so would lead to more 'bureaucracy' and 'inequalities', expert says
Comes weeks after mayor Andy Burnham labelled the DfE as his 'biggest frustration'
Training will be commissioned by local councils instead of ITPs on the national contract
