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Revealed: 39 post-16 providers to share £83m to accommodate demographic boom

An additional 260,000 16- to 19-year-olds are anticipated to be in education in the coming years

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Ofsted watch: 10 providers achieve ‘good’ results

Ten FE providers were awarded grade twos from Ofsted in a good week for the sector. However, the college for HS2 and an independent learner provider were both hit with ‘inadequate’ ratings. IT Skills Management Company Limited was one of the independent learner providers to receive a grade two after its first inspection by the […]

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Sixth form college staff to strike against 16-19 funding cuts in lead up to the budget

“Angry” sixth form college staff will hit the picket line tomorrow as they step up their protest against government funding cuts in the build up to next month’s budget. National Education Union members from 34 sixth form colleges will be taking strike action. Two further strikes will take place 27 February and 10 March. The […]

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Union to present £700m sixth form college invoice to DfE

Sixth form college staff will march on the Department for Education tomorrow and hand officials an invoice for £700 million – the amount they believe is still needed for the post-16 sector. Up to 200 National Education Union members from 25 sixth form colleges will head to the department’s London offices. The NEU says the […]

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Exclusive: Sixth form college performance fell 8% points, Ofsted expected to say

Sixth-form colleges have been driven to “tipping point” through repeated funding cuts, the body that represents them has said, after FE Week exposed a sharp drop in top Ofsted grades. Our exclusive analysis, using the same methodology as Ofsted’s own annual report, has shown an eight-point fall in those with a grade one or two […]

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A-Level results 2017 | Live blog

A-level results day is here!  Today’s the day when A-level learners up and down the country find out whether all their hard work has paid off, and what their next step in life will be. *** The live blog is now closed. Sorry if your pictures didn’t make it in – we’ve been inundated with […]

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Look at inspection results, and look at management

Research in the last edition of FE Week showed how the proportion of new grade three results was up this year versus the same period last year. Jayne Stigger considers what might be behind this rise. It was reported in FE Week that 33 per cent of the 57 general FE colleges (GFEs), sixth form […]

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White paper raises the flag for sixth form colleges

Colleges often feel undervalued and under threat. The Sixth Form Colleges Association, launched last week, is determined to change that More than 150 guests were at Westminster for the official unveiling of the rebranded Sixth Form Colleges Association and heard how sector principals were competing in an unfair education market. The event, on Tuesday, came […]

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