{"id":49434,"date":"2014-10-29T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d89e13ff1f732b4b82a4fb01e86e8423"},"modified":"2014-10-29T14:30:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T14:30:11","slug":"press-release-new-chief-executive-for-skills-funding-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49434","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New Chief Executive for Skills Funding Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Skills Minister Nick Boles has today (29 October 2014) announced the permanent appointment of Peter Lauener as the Chief Executive of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/skills-funding-agency\">Skills Funding Agency (<abbr title=\"Skills Funding Agency\">SFA<\/abbr>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He will take up his role on Monday 3 November 2014 and will retain his post as the Chief Executive of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/education-funding-agency\">Education Funding Agency (<abbr title=\"Education Funding Agency\">EFA<\/abbr>)<\/a> with separate accountability for each agency\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Boles said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am pleased to welcome Peter to his new post.  He brings a wealth of experience in skills and in working with employers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">In his new role leading both <abbr title=\"Skills Funding Agency\">SFA<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"Education Funding Agency\">EFA<\/abbr> he will help to join up our programme of reform across the education and skills sector.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Peter Lauener said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am delighted to take on this role and am looking forward to the challenge of making a difference in the skills sector.  I have a long-standing interest and commitment to apprenticeships and skills and I am keen to be involved in the next stage of reform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Peter Lauener will maintain separate accountabilities for both agencies. This is not a merger of the <abbr title=\"Skills Funding Agency\">SFA<\/abbr> and the <abbr title=\"Education Funding Agency\">EFA<\/abbr>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skills Minister Nick Boles today announced the permanent appointment of Peter Lauener as the Chief Executive of the Skills Funding Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}