Blog Archives: June 2016

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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.



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

By Lindsay Plumpton, Communications Leader, Monday 27 June 2016

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.



Attracting Apprenticeship talent

By Lindsay Plumpton, Communications Leader, Monday 27 June 2016

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.



How will Brexit impact on education and skills?

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Friday 24 June 2016

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



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