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It was great to see that FE and Skills were well represented in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours, with a number of individuals in the sector recognised. We’d particularly like to congratulate John Hyde, Executive Chairman of our customer HIT Training, who was awarded a CBE. This is in recognition of his services to the FE and training sectors over this 30 year career. Alongside managing director Jill Whittaker, he co-founded the hospitality and care sector training and Apprenticeship provider in 2006.

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Within the work preparation element of a Study Programme, we understand that sometimes it is difficult to identify your learners’ baseline strengths and weaknesses, design tailored programmes based upon this and accurate track distance travelled from the start to the end of the course. REED NCFE is excited to be launching a brand new Baseline Employability Skills Test, BESTest, which answers all of these questions and more.

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Attracting the right talent for Apprenticeships is hard and at NCFE, we understand the time it takes to sift through candidates to increase your number of Apprenticeship starters and increase retention and success rates. CareerMap is offering a free 30 day trial of their Apprenticeship placement service exclusively to NCFE customers.

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How will Brexit impact on education and skills? We live in interesting times.

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Last month saw the refreshing of Ofqual’s corporate plan for 2016 through to 2019. It sets out a number of key objectives that Ofqual wants to achieve over the next 3 years, and reading between the lines, we can also get an inkling of the challenges Ofqual will be facing during that period. Ofqual has set out its key objectives in this plan; “covering standards maintenance and reform in both general and vocational qualifications, as well as our own organisational development.” This sets the theme for the plan, focusing on the introduction and regulation of new qualifications in the GCSE and Functional Skills spaces, continued rigour around Technical and Professional Education (TPE) and efficiency savings in the way Ofqual operates.

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A recently released report has stated that better understanding is needed of why young people choose oversubscribed career paths. The AELP-published study, Routes into Work… it’s alright for some, aimed to explain why youth unemployment has remained high as the economy recovers.

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It’s not often that education takes centre stage in British politics, but when it does, you can bet that it’ll capture public opinion. The government had probably not expected that its proposal to force all schools to convert to academies in the Educational Excellence Everywhere white paper would prove to be such a political hot potato.

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Mental Health Awareness Week is in progress across the UK, with the focus of this year’s campaign on relationships. The recognition of mental health conditions as true illnesses is more common now than ever, but there’s still a lack of understanding around conditions like depression and anxiety – the two most commonly diagnosed problems.

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Here at NCFE we’re anticipating the forthcoming publication of the skills white paper which will, in part, include the findings of the Sainsbury Review of Technical and Professional Education (TPE). Although this wasn’t referenced in the Queen’s Speech on 18 May as expected, rumours are that the final recommendations and report will be published at some point later, before the EU referendum Purdah begins on 27 May.

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Visitors to the North Sea Tall Ships Regatta Blyth 2016 this summer will be able to navigate around the county using a taxi service with a difference. Active Northumberland and Northumberland College have set up a new training scheme, which will help taxi drivers boost their skills and knowledge to become ‘chauffeur guides’.

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Recognition for FE and Skills colleagues in Queen’s Birthday Honours list

How confident are you in accurately measuring your learners’ employability skills?

Attracting Apprenticeship talent

How will Brexit impact on education and skills?

Key points from Ofqual corporate plan

Choosing the right career path

An update on academisation

Keeping mental health on the agenda

What does the future hold for Technical and Professional Education?

Northumberland College hosts 12-week course to create NCFE-qualified ‘chauffeur guides’

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Lindsay Plumpton

David Grailey

Andrew Gladstone-Heighton

Esme Winch

Michael Lemin

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