Jan 9, 2025 · 2025 will be a pivotal year for FE. With a new government in office and a Spending Review on the horizon, decisions in the coming months will shape the funding landscape through to 2028.

Oct 10, 2024 · Skills minister Jacqui Smith introduced a 12-page bill in the House of Lords yesterday which will transfer all of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education’s (IfATE) powers to the Department for Education, paving the way for Skills England.. Here’s your trusty FE Week explainer on what’s in the bill, and what happens next:

Jan 8, 2025 · Calls to ban graduates from publicly funded apprenticeships have resurfaced after new data revealed over £400 million in levy funds was spent on people who already held a bachelor’s degree or higher last year. Freedom of Information request figures show that one in six apprentices (56,000) were university alumni in 2023/24, including 14,000 people with

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Dec 13, 2024 · Finalists for this year’s record-breaking Apprenticeship and Training Awards have been revealed. Formerly known as the AAC Apprenticeship Awards, over 600 nominations were submitted from employers, training providers, colleges and …

Jan 9, 2025 · Proposals for a business administration apprenticeship standard at level 2 have finally been approved after five years of campaigning from employers and training organisations.

Jan 10, 2025 · Just two out of nearly 200 government investigation reports on FE providers have been published over the past seven years, FE Week can reveal. Figures obtained under the freedom of information act show that between 2017 and 2024, the Education and Skills Funding Agency recovered £49 million in public funding from colleges and training providers following 193 investigations into financial ...

Dec 16, 2024 · Fresh fears have emerged that dozens of colleges may be snared by Labour’s private school fee VAT rules. Government guidance on its finance bill, which is making its way through Parliament, says it is “confident” its current definition of a private school “does not capture” FE colleges.. However, the guidance also warns that FE colleges which have chosen to apply VAT rules set out in ...

Nov 29, 2024 · Typical Labour, penalising those they feel can afford it, without consideration of the bigger picture. My son is one of those apprentices, had the sense to choose that and gain on the job experience rather than incur huge uni fees and still have to train for the role after.

Sep 11, 2024 · The government’s education funding agency will be closed down next year, the education secretary has announced.. The Education and Skills Funding Agency will be “integrated into the core Department for Education” by the end of March 2025.