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Skills minister ‘hopeful’ free level 3 quals will be revealed next month

The skills minister has said she is “hopeful” the list of free, first, full level 3 qualifications being funded…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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£100m pilot integrated into £2.5bn National Skills Fund

The government’s national retraining scheme pilot has been rolled into the national skills fund, Gillian Keegan announced today. In…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Confirmed: Most GCSE and A-level exams pushed back three weeks

Students will still sit one GCSE English and one GCSE maths exam before the summer half term next year,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Covid-19 forecasting app for colleges launched

A new app that forecasts the spread of Covid-19 in colleges has been launched. Developed by the University of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Queen’s Birthday Honours: Who received what in FE?

A former college principal who championed further education and skills as a member of Parliament has been knighted in…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Colleges set to repeat foodbank partnership

A college group is planning on providing festive relief to families in need this Christmas by bringing back its…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


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DfE publishes 8 college intervention reports on a Friday after lengthy delay

The Department for Education has this morning published eight intervention reports based on FE Commissioner visits that in some…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Labour Party calls out ‘pitiful’ underinvestment in college estates

Labour has castigated the Conservatives for their “pitiful” investment in college estates, after a minister revealed that the average…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Covid blamed as targets revised at flagship Institutes of Technology

Covid is being blamed for recruitment concerns at the government’s new flagship Institutes of Technology (IoT), FE Week can…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Popular apprenticeship scrapped by government could be revived

Plans are afoot to revive the level 2 business administration apprenticeship under a new name, FE Week can reveal….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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DfE launches tender for 8 new Institutes of Technology

A competition to create the next wave of Institutes of Technology has been launched by the education secretary Gavin…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Jessica Hill
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Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

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

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Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

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