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Timetables and trust – how we’re getting students to show up

2 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

Timetables, talks and trust – how we’re getting students to show up Rigid timetables and punitive measures failed. So we tried something different, and it’s transformed student attitudes to attendance Rigid timetables and punitive measures failed.
Immigration white paper: What it means for FE and skills

3 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Billy Camden

More from this theme Recent articles Ministers are set to significantly increase the tax rate on the Immigration Skills Charge and enforce stricter English speaking rules on migrants, it was announced today. A new levy is also on the cards for higher education providers’ income from international students with funds raised “to be reinvested into the higher education and skills system”.
Mark Botha, chief executive, Knovia Group

3 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

Rugby-loving boss of Knovia Group Mark Botha has big plans for care, early years and dental training after learning to seize opportunities and take risks‘Discover the limits of the possible by going beyond them into the impossible’, reads a slogan on the picture looming behind Mark Botha of a man skiing off a mountain peak.
We’re haunted by the ghosts of failed curriculum reforms

3 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

More from this theme Recent articles Professor Becky Francis has some huge decisions to make as she prepares to submit her final recommendations to the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson. Francis follows a long line of ‘independent education experts’ tasked by ministers to examine the efficacy of the national curriculum, including post-16 skills. More recent holders of the title include Sir Mike Tomlinson, known as the “safest pair of hands in education”.
Teaching digital skills is vital given the risks teens face

4 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

More from this theme Recent articles In today’s tech-driven world, digital skills are just as important as knowing your ABCs and 123s. Consider booking a GP appointment, registering to vote, researching information for an assignment or just communicating with teachers and peers – all these tasks now require a certain level of digital competence.
Mayors spending on young NEET people to Get Britain Working

5 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Josh Mellor

Young people who risk becoming NEET will be the focus of Get Britain Working cash handed to mayors this year. Alongside its employment white paper published last year, the government gave £240 million in “place-based trailblazer” funding to several regional mayors, the Welsh government and local NHS boards, to test ways of reducing economic inactivity.
What supervisors really think about apprenticeships

5 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

More from this theme Recent articles While government efforts to simplify and grow apprenticeships remain a work in progress, the view from those managing apprentices remains encouragingly positive. As a national business and professional apprenticeship provider, we recently undertook a survey of 256 apprentice supervisors – the people responsible for day-to-day apprentice management. It showed us where apprenticeships are providing value to organisations.
Gatsby careers rules apply to ITPs from September

6 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Anviksha Patel

More from this theme Recent articles Independent training providers will be expected to follow the government’s Gatsby Benchmarks for the first time from September. Private providers that train 16 to 18 year olds will be “strongly encouraged” to offer learners “meaningful” workplace experiences, provide “encounters” with employers and create a board-approved “stable, structured” careers programme.
Disbelief at Phillipson’s 21-and-under fudge for level 7 apprenticeships

6 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Billy Camden

More from this theme Recent articles Bridget Phillipson has been accused of “political posturing” with a “daft” concession on level 7 apprenticeships that exempts a tiny number of 16 to 21 year olds from having their funding axed.
Level 7 age restrictions are a ridiculous barrier to growth

6 days ago | feweek.co.uk | Jessica Hill

More from this theme Recent articles The apprenticeship sector has waited with bated breath since Labour’s conference in September, when plans were announced to restrict employers’ use of levy funds on level 7 apprenticeships. Back then I described the decision as “retrograde” and assumed all level 7 apprenticeships would be axed – or at the very least the cutting of public subsidy would be “pretty widespread”.