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New equality, diversity and inclusion course launched for front-line staff delivering new apprenticeship standards

A new online course is today being launched to help apprenticeship staff engage and support a diverse range of apprentices (and their employers) right the way through the new apprenticeship standards journey. The two-hour Education and ...

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  • 28 Feb
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National programme launched to improve the delivery of independent end-point assessment in apprenticeships

A large-scale programme, funded by the Department for Education and commissioned by the Education and Training Foundation, is today being launched to improve capacity to deliver independent end-point assessment in apprenticeships. The ...

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  • 21 Oct
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Apprenticeship Levy – maximising your contribution (events)

Are you one of the 20,000 businesses who are in scope to pay the new Apprenticeship Levy from April 2017? If so, we’re running two free webinars and a detailed workshop to help you understand the levy and make a real return on your ...

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  • 10 May
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Apprenticeship 2020 Vision: What does the government’s five year plan tell us?

This month, the government published their vision for Apprenticeships over the next five years. The document confirms much of what we already knew about the Apprenticeship reforms, but provides much needed detail and timescales. Here’s ...

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  • 21 Dec
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Government opens up Traineeship delivery to all providers

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 ...

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  • 10 Dec
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Details of new Apprenticeship Levy published

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 ...

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  • 26 Nov
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Early FE budget announcements not as feared

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. ...

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  • 26 Nov
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