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Revealed: £302m college condition allocations

DfE also dishes out additional £20m to Leeds and Greater Manchester to help manage student population surge

News, Colleges

Gripped by fear of a special needs cash clawback

Most apprenticeship providers don’t claim apprentice support funding due to complexity and worries a mistake could wreck their finances, Jessica Hill reports

Feature, News, Apprenticeships, Long read

New year honours 2024: Who got what in FE and skills?

SFCA boss Bill Watkin receives a gong alongside four college principals and two WorldSkills medal winners

News

Strike ballot fails to meet turnout threshold in half of colleges

UCU members at 32 colleges are, however, set to strike

News, Colleges

National college strike ballot opens

Two in three staff warn they will quit without big pay rise

News, Colleges, Strikes

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 403

Emma Barrett-Peel Chief Operating Officer, Learning Curve Group Start date: November 2022 Previous Job: Director of Apprenticeships, Learning Curve Group Interesting fact: As a teen, Emma spent many years as an air cade. She aspired to be a jet pilot but at the time women were not allowed to fly in combat Randeep Sami Vice […]

Movers and Shakers

Revealed: The 22 colleges and adult ed providers leading FE professional development grant pilots

The £9.5m pilot will run throughout 2021/22

News, Teacher training

Focus: Do employers set the bar too high for entry criteria to apprenticeships?

Employers are allowed to set their own entry criteria for apprenticeships, even though officially, no formal qualifications are needed. When is the bar being set too high? asks Jess Staufenberg The government has two favourite phrases for its ambitions in further education, and for apprenticeships in particular.   The first is ‘employer-led’. The term, bandied […]

Feature, News, Apprenticeships, Long read

Testing times? Inside the reopening of colleges

An Herculean effort has seen colleges deploy mass Covid testing to support a safe reopening. So how did it go, and what does the future hold? JL Dutaut finds out “I wasn’t coping at home although my teachers really tried with me.” Our dominant image of vulnerable learners amid this pandemic may be of children […]

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