Josh Mellor

Fascinating to see #skills-devolved mayors approaches to boosting employment. West Yorks, West Mids, and Liverpool all rebooting the pandemic-era #Kickstart scheme Can they avoid past pitfalls while helping more into good jobs? One to watch. @FEWeek https://t.co/4YEbDAGqRa

A fascinating view into a world of apprenticeship funding claims gone wrong, how the ESFA investigates and whether expensive "errors" should amount to a disqualification for the directors responsible. https://t.co/MvNHcVf0Ub

RT @FEWeek: ✂️ Incoming tax rises on hairdressing salons could eliminate popular apprenticeship places in the industry within two years, a…

RT @PLMR_Education: Skills devolution spreads with plan for 6 new regions. Millions in skills funding will be handed to mayors, with ringfe…

RT @FEWeek: UPDATE: DfE confirms the new rule can be applied to apprentices already on-programme Providers given deadline of April 1 to 'a…

RT @FEWeek: ✝️ None of England’s Catholic sixth form colleges have applied to become academies – despite a church campaign that forced a le…

Would/does this happen in schools? E.g. we've got a shortage of teachers and high demand for places, so lets count a few years experience as equivalent to a qualification

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👶 Strict rules around qualification levels of early years staff are to be relaxed from September to give the sector 'respite' from a long-running recruitment crisis, the government has announced https://t.co/0EB9kfZYNU

I spent a while pulling together numbers on what England's mayors are spending out of free Level 3 training funding the govt. gives them each year. Should the rules around spending this money be more flexible, so it reaches the right people? Would love to hear your thoughts.

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ICYMI: An FE Week investigation into spending on a flagship government retraining scheme has revealed that half of the cash that was handed to mayors between 2021 and 2023 was quietly returned to the Treasury. https://t.co/Br1OqkQE34

RT @shanechowen: 🚨Breaking: £300m announced for FE at the budget will be allocated for 16-19 education 2024/25 - one off grant worth £50m…

RT @shanechowen: Good evening! Here’s our first edition of 2025 🔍 How ESFA’s investigations are kept under wraps despite promises of tran…

A summary of most of the changes the English Devo white paper pledges for skills, the biggest change being greater adult skills spending flexibility. The rest are more gradual changes such as "joint ownership" of local skills plans & an "important role" in 16-19 education. https://t.co/D2c98z41YX

I love that the government's official picture for announcing its 're-wiring' England's local government system, including by trying to delete a few hundred local politicians, is a pic of Rayner taking a selfie with a few mayors

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🎓 Devolution of adult skills funding is set to 'go further' with plans to 'un-ringfence' funding pots for skills bootcamps and the free courses for jobs offer https://t.co/bnvYMJpz8u

RT @FEWeek: 💰 Fresh fears have emerged that dozens of colleges may be snared by Labour’s private school fee VAT rules https://t.co/MMjrhD2l…

RT @shanechowen: On level 3 quals review, @Jacqui_Smith1 says ‘I hope you’ll think we have listened and made some progress’