| The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill receives Royal Assent |
| Tuesday, 17 November 2009 09:04 | The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill received Royal Assent on 12 November 2009. It provides the necessary legislation to transform the skills system including: • provision to dissolve the Learning and Skills Council and transfer responsibility for 14-18 funding to local authorities; • creating the post of Chief Executive of Skills Funding, who will lead the Skills Funding Agency - a non-statutory Agency of BIS - which will fund post 19 education and training. • establishes a new Young People’s Learning Agency to support local authorities in their new role The Bill is wide ranging and makes provision about apprenticeships, including the issuing of frameworks and certificates; introduces a right for people to apply for time to train; and puts arrangements in place to ensure that the various bodies involved in providing post 16 education share the information needed to carry out their functions. Click here for a summary of the Bill’s provisions. |
| Government Sets Out Skills for Growth Plan |
| Monday, 16 November 2009 11:00 | Business Secretary Lord Mandelson last week set out an ambitious vision for giving people and businesses the skills they need to help drive economic growth. The Government will: - Create a modern class of technicians, through a dramatic expansion of advanced apprenticeships, creating 35,000 new places over the next two years;
- Give every adult a personal skills account, empowering learners to shop around for training with new information on how well different courses and colleges can meet their needs;
- Radically simplify the way in which skills policy is delivered – working with the UK Commission for Employment and Skills to reduce the number of public bodies by more than 30.
Click here for the full article. |
| Sector Skills Council Relicensing |
| Monday, 16 November 2009 10:16 | Two further Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) have been relicensed, Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary Lord Mandelson announced last week, on behalf of the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations. Sector Skills Councils are employer-led bodies, established to enable employers to exert influence on the UK’s education and skills systems to ensure they meet their needs. Both ConstructionSkills (for the construction industry) and the Institute of the Motor Industry (for the retail motor industry) have been successful in their application. Click here for the full article. |
| Independent reports how training can help develop the skills for survival |
| Friday, 06 November 2009 16:21 | Yesterday the Independent reported how businesses who invest in the training and personal development of their staff are 2.5 times more likely to survive the recession. The article includes a case study of the benefits Corus Group experienced as a result of their training programme as well as describing how colleges from around the country are becoming more flexible to the needs of employers, including the East of England's own Otley College. Click here for the full article. |
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