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Dudley College Forced to Give £500K Back to Funding Agency OFF-THE-JOB UNIVERSAL DEGREE APPRENS CALCULATION FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORT SOCIAL TO BE CLARIFIED QUALITY NEEDED MOBILITY Page 8 Page 18 Page 19 FEWEEK.CO.UK FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019 @FEWEEK EDITION 276 Exclusive FRASER WHIELDON Ofsted concern at AAC as FE Week investigates growth of managementExclusive consultancy apprenticeships See page 3 Grade 1 College CEO says sorry > Dudley College forced to give £500k back to funding agency > Chief executive considered resigning over the dodgy data > DfE excludes college from national achievement rate tables BILLY CAMDEN [email protected] Exclusive See page 4 MARKET LEADING SUPPLIER OF AEB SERVICES NEW LEARNING CONTENT JUST LAUNCHED ■ BRAND-NEW: NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Workplace Violence and Harassment ■ REDEVELOPMENT: NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Principles of Team Leading - now includes coaching, mentoring and personal development 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019 @FEWEEK EDITION 276 FEWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 276 MEET THE TEAM FEWeek.co.uk Nick Linford Shane Mann EDITOR MANAGING DIRECTOR @NICKLINFORD @SHANERMANN [email protected] [email protected] Please inform the FE Week editor of any errors or issues of concern regarding this publication. 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Level 6 and 7 apprenticeships have such as level 7 accountancy/taxation Exclusive In total, 88 per cent of the starts proved controversial after the IfATE professional, at the expense of lower- between November and July were estimated the apprenticeship budget level apprenticeships that do actually A member of the Commons Public delivered by four providers – Kaplan could be overspent by £0.5 billion in need taxpayers’ funding. Accounts Committee has “serious Financial Limited, BPP Professional 2018-19, rising to £1.5 billion by 2020-21. “This will become a greater issue concerns” about the government Education Limited, Ernst & Young A National Audit Office when money is tight, and qualifications allocating one provider up to £40 LLP, and First Intuition – with Kaplan apprenticeships progress report earlier such as this one should be the first to be million in nine months to teach a delivering 59 per cent on its own, which this month warned there was “clear risk” excluded.” controversial management consultancy would be worth up to £40 million. that the apprenticeship programme In March last year, Anne Milton, the apprenticeship. Apprentices on this course can expect was not financially sustainable after the skills minister, told a House of Lords Layla Moran, the Lib Dem education to go on to careers as management average cost of training an apprentice inquiry that fears of a “middle-class spokesperson, was responding to an consultants, financial accountants, hit double what the government grab” on apprenticeships were valid. FE Week analysis that showed the level management accountants and business predicted. The accountancy/taxation 7 accountancy/taxation professional and tax advisers, according to the The problem –despite a dip in professional standard is the most standard had 3,250 starts from Institute for Apprenticeships and the number of starts – is the result popular level 6 or 7 apprenticeship, with Layla Moran November 2017, when it was approved Technical Education (IfATE). of higher per-start funding than 5,790 total starts to December 2018; for delivery, to July 2018. This includes jobs at big financial first predicted, largely driven by the about 1,000 more than the second- time”. sharp rise in expensive management placed chartered manager degree When FE Week shared the analysis apprenticeships, which FE Week was standard. of the standard with Amanda Spielman, 'Graduate schemes are first to warn about in 2016. But scrutiny of the providers that Ofsted’s chief inspector, she said she Last week the Association of offer the standard is thin. “very much hopes people will see completely unscrutinised' Employment and Learning Providers Although Kaplan was graded 'requires the logic in us doing level 6 and 7 made the radical proposal that all level improvement' by Ofsted last year, it apprenticeship inspections”. 6 and 7 apprenticeships, including those would not have been inspected on its She also discussed her concerns about Ofsted’s chief inspector is worried with integrated degrees, should be level 6 or 7 provision, including the repackaged graduate programmes now that some level 6 and 7 provision, removed from levy funding to relieve accountancy/taxation professional being sold as apprenticeships (see box which includes “repackaged mounting pressure on the budget. standard, as the watchdog only inspects out). graduate schemes”, is going And on Monday, the Department up to level 5. When asked about its provision of “completely unscrutinised” because for Education’s permanent secretary Inspectors criticised Kaplan’s the accountancy/taxation professional of government policy. admitted to the PAC that “hard choices” managers for not having “sufficient standard, and for comment on the Speaking at FE Week’s Annual would need to be made in the face of information about apprentices’ progress AELP proposal, a Kaplan spokesperson Apprenticeship Conference this the imminent apprenticeship budget so that they can act quickly when said: "We continue to support the week, Amanda Spielman said these overspend. apprentices fall behind”. They also found government's strategy on apprentices." “expensive” apprenticeships were Amanda Spielman Asked whether the government its “talent coaches do not always set BPP declined to comment on its “high-cost programmes that soak up should be limiting the use of the apprentices sufficiently challenging provision of the accountancy/taxation a lot of money”. level 4 provision, while in another apprenticeship levy, Moran said: learning targets, and as a result, too professional standard, as did Ernst & She referred to how graduate room level 7 apprentices were not “While I cannot pre-empt the many apprentices do not complete on Young and First Intuition. schemes were, in effect, being being reviewed. “repackaged” as apprenticeships, an “It was very clearly a graduate issue she raised in her 2017-18 annual training programme that existed for report.
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