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Revealed: Almost 50 T Level colleges sharing £48.5m to refurbish buildings

Almost 50 colleges set to deliver T Levels from 2021 will share £48.5 million to refurbish their buildings. Successful…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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DfE launches £135m capital fund for wave three T Level providers

Colleges and training providers in the third wave of the T Level rollout are being invited to bid for…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted visits to be conducted remotely until Feb half term

Ofsted’s planned monitoring visits will take place remotely until after the February half term, the watchdog has announced. The…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Funding for popular apprenticeship cut by £4k as MBA is axed

The popular level 7 senior leader apprenticeship will have its funding slashed by 22 per cent when a revised…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Government publishes guide to home learning

The Department for Education has released a “remote education framework” to support colleges and training providers to identify “areas…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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AoC Sport challenges colleges to go to the moon during lockdown

Students and staff are being encouraged to keep their bodies and brains active throughout lockdown by walking, running and…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


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FE staff should get Covid vaccine priority, say college leaders

FE staff should be moved up the priority list for Covid-19 vaccines so that providers can reopen to all…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Employers should pay for laptops so apprentices can be remote educated, says Keegan

Employers should pay for apprentices’ digital devices to continue training remotely, Gillian Keegan said today as she confirmed learners…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Tender launched for national rollout of skills ‘boot camps’

The tender for the nationwide rollout of the government’s technical skills “boot camps” has been launched, with £36 million…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Ofqual warns this summer’s grading solution is unlikely to be consistent

Ofqual’s new interim chief has warned that the solution to replacing this summer’s exams “won’t be the same for…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Tripling traineeships: £65m tender deadline ‘slightly delayed’

The outcomes for the government’s traineeships tender have been delayed, the Education and Skills Funding Agency announced today. In…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Labour Party calls for apprentice wage subsidy

The Labour Party has called for the wages of 85,000 young apprentices to be subsidised this year, by using…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

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Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

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Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

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Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

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Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying…

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