March 2018 - Capital City College Group
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CCCT wins awards at Southwark Council Apprenticeship Awards

Capital City College Training apprentices won two awards at this year’s Southwark Council Apprenticeship awards.

In a night of celebration to coincide with National Apprenticeship Week 2018, Claire Beswick was given the ‘Highly Commended’ award in the ‘Best Contribution by a New Apprentice’ category. Another of our apprentices won the overall prize for that same category.

Claire completed a Business Administration Level 3 apprenticeship and won the award based on her work ethic during the course.

Raj Kakaiya, Deputy Managing Director at Capital City College Training said: “I am incredibly proud of the achievement of these apprentices and our partnership with Southwark Council who continually champion the contribution of the apprenticeship schemes that Capital City College Training support them with. 

“Apprenticeships play a vital role in recruiting new talent for employers in London and are also a great way to develop the skills of existing employees within organisations. Capital City College Training is part of London’s largest FE college group and works with hundreds of employers, large and small, to take recruit and retrain through the apprenticeships route.” 

CCCG responds to DfE Post-18 Review

In February the Prime Minister announced a major review of education for over 18s.  The review’s aims are to improve both quality and choice, while ensuring value for money, and, to start the review process, the Department for Education invited interested parties to submit their views.

The Association for Colleges is the representative body for the country’s further education colleges and has submitted detailed evidence to the Review. We support and agree with their evidence – we were involved in drafting and agreeing it – and have also resounded to the Review in support of the AOC’s position. We particularly support the AoC’s call for the creation of a new higher education route, based around Higher T Levels, to sit alongside the traditional Bachelor’s degree route. We believe this would fulfil a major need for a flexible system of progression through levels 4, 5 and potentially beyond (levels 4-6 are equivalent to a Batchelor’s degree).

In our experience, students are increasingly attracted to generic, traditional, university degree programmes (partly by the low entry criteria that has resulted from increased competition among universities, and partly due to the advice that students get – which values going to university at 18, more than employment). The result of these factors is that students find themselves in a relatively expensive 3-year degree programme before they achieve any sort of qualification. Finally, in many cases, this Batchelor’s degree only equips them for employment in a job for which they are over-skilled.

We believe that, in the same way that the existing plans for T-Levels provide a prestigious suite of qualifications that sit alongside, but do not detract from, A-Levels, a similar approach is required for higher education programmes. Such programmes could:

  • Provide stepping on and off points with a recognised qualification at each level;
  • Provide options for full or part-time study;
  • Include industrial experience delivered in a variety of modes;
  • Consist of qualifications with a mandatory core based on employment in a sector, and optional modules reflecting the more specific requirements of a sub-sector or employer.
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