Skills bootcamps

‘Risk averse’ colleges avoid skills bootcamps

Two-thirds haven't touched the flagship government programme yet, data suggests

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Apprenticeships, career change, Skills bootcamps

Workers face £40k financial penalty if they switch careers, research warns

Experts call for lifelong learning entitlement to be expanded to help ease financial burden

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Skills bootcamps

Skills bootcamps: Study finds ‘inappropriate’ interviews and already-skilled workers on courses

Research of wave 2 bootcamps finds more than half of learners already have level 4 or above qualifications

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Skills bootcamps, Skills reform

HGV driver hopefuls left in the dark as DfE ends bootcamp contract

Learners waited a year for training due to dispute over financially 'unviable' flagship scheme

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Budget, over-50s, Skills bootcamps

Chancellor to announce ‘returnerships’ and bootcamps expansion in ‘back to work’ budget

Jeremy Hunt to target schemes at the over-50s

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills bootcamps

Skills bootcamps struggle to attract learners as devolved areas lower sights

Combined authorities report competition with national procurement on wave three skills bootcamps

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Long read, Skills bootcamps

How HGV bootcamps helped to ease a skills crisis

FE Week looks at whether the HGV driver crisis remains and what the impact has been on apprenticeships

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Skills bootcamps

First bootcamps-only inspection results in glowing report

High praise for course that takes learners with no prior coding experience to 'becoming work ready within 20 weeks

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills bootcamps

DfE exceeds 16k skills bootcamps starts target in 2021-22

But data on completions and gender won't be released until next year

Billy Camden
Billy Camden