Sub-Contracting – A Response
I feel I must respond to Matt Garvey’s recent article about sub-contracting. Matt and I clearly have very different views about many things and I…
Roger Francis
Goodbye Sub-Contracting, Hello Partnerships
Sub-contracting is an issue which raises strong emotions in the sector and has been the subject of passionate debate both in FE News and elsewhere. …
Provider Funding Cuts – The Story Continues
Last week I wrote an article challenging the so-called cuts in Apprenticeship funding for providers and suggesting that from next April we need to adopt…
Provider Funding Cuts – They Are Dead Parrots. Welcome To The New World
The headlines over the last few weeks have all been about huge cuts in Apprenticeship Funding. Of course, they could equally have read “Huge Increases…
Functional Skills Funding – The Achilles’ Heel Of The Apprenticeship Reforms?
It seems that hardly a day goes by at the moment without the release of another publication which confirms the huge basic skills crisis which…
Recognition – the case for grading Apprenticeships
A few days ago, we learned that our company, Creative Learning Partners, had been short-listed in no less than 4 different categories (including Training Provider…
2.22 is the number that could change vocational training forever
Government publications rarely contain information of any great significance but the latest Apprenticeship Plan “English Apprenticeships: Our 2020 Vision” is an exception and one particular…
The Apprenticeship levy – BIS provides clarification
A few days ago I wrote an article about the forthcoming Apprenticeship Levy scheme. My interpretation of the information contained within the latest joint BIS/Department…
Time to end SFA sub-contracting
The manner by which the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) distributes government cash to training providers, has long been the subject of debate and criticism. In…
Will coopetition save FE?
The FE sector is currently facing huge challenges. Savage cuts to the Adult Skills Budget and a major review of post-16 education and training which…