Skills Minister Nick Bowles has announced that current restrictions on who can deliver Traineeships will be relaxed. As it currently stands, only training providers with an Ofsted grade of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ can directly receive ...
As it stands, all Apprenticeship delivery will be based on new Standards and Assessment Plans by 2017. Changes to assessment are significant and will impact on delivery planning – starting now – so it’s important that providers start ...
Further details of the much anticipated Apprenticeship Levy have now been published by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The document provided a summary of the responses received to the Levy consultation ...
After months of anxious waiting and the Skills Minister’s warning at the AoC Conference last week that FE would not be “insulated from further cuts”, early budget announcements made yesterday were not as severe as many had feared. ...
If you’re like me, my Twitter feed, LinkedIn group and inbox has been dominated by one subject over the last few weeks… Ofsted. Ofsted’s review of Apprenticeships has certainly ruffled some feathers. As with many reviews of this kind, ...
