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Employability must start with accessibility 

With the potential for even more lockdown life ahead of us, the adaptations made to the UK’s business infrastructure to remain operational seem set to remain for some time….

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 333

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Oli de Botton, Chief executive, The Careers and Enterprise Company…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Lifetime skills guarantee: Fresh setback to list of free level 3 quals

The list of level 3 qualifications being fully funded for all adults under the Lifetime Skills Guarantee could take…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Further glitches in T Level rollout

An update to the official list of T Level providers this week reveals several colleges cancelled courses scheduled for…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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‘Significant strides’ made towards addressing safety concerns at Shrewsbury college, says FE Commissioner

A college has been praised by the FE Commissioner for making “significant strides” towards ensuring its campuses safe, after…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Revealed: Six members appointed to DfE’s skills and productivity board

Six “leading skills and labour market economists” have today been appointed to the Department for Education’s new skills and…

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Former leader of bankrupt college returns to auditing firm

Investigations by the government’s insolvency watchdog into the former leadership of two bankrupt colleges are still ongoing – as…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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DfE to move army of cost-cutting advisers into FE

Ministers are drawing up plans to extend a controversial cost-cutting advice scheme for schools into the FE sector. According…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Mass Covid testing ‘a game changer’ for colleges

Rapid mass coronavirus testing has been hailed as a potential “game changer” for keeping campuses open and courses running,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Higher education admissions process set for radical shake-up

The government is set to move closer to meeting a manifesto commitment to reform the higher education admissions process….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

The winners of the BAME Apprenticeship Awards 2020

Outstanding black, Asian and minority ethnic apprentices, as well as employers and providers leading in increasing the diversity of…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Government careers agency fails to persuade majority of schools to engage with FE and HE

Less than half of the schools in the government’s multi-million pound network of careers hubs have met a target…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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