People 1st Goes Into Administration

People 1st, once a major sector skills council and a key player in the apprenticeship reforms, has entered administration. Click here for more. Members may be concerned about the arrangements for ongoing apprenticeship certification. The following statement on this...

FE Week Analysis of Traineeship Starts

FE Week has obtained figures for Traineeship starts by provider for each year back to 2013/14. This article gives an interesting analysis of why the programme is and isn’t working and the behaviour of different types of providers as well as extrapolating some...

Report Looks at Provider Fitness for the Future

This Collab Group report published has published a paper looking at how the landscape for technical and professional education is changing, focusing on the role of providers and identifying 16 organisational capabilities such providers will need in order to succeed....