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Call for colleges to host employer hubs to help fill healthcare vacancies

New employer hubs to “turbocharge greater college collaboration” with the NHS have been proposed to fill “significant workforce vacancies”…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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T Levels launch but classes not full

Colleges and schools have missed two-thirds of their T Level enrolment targets, with digital proving to be the toughest…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Law to be changed to help those made redundant finish their apprenticeship

The government is changing the law to allow more redundant apprentices to complete their course. A Statutory Instrument (SI)…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Team UK for EuroSkills Graz unveiled

The elite team of skilled young people who will represent the UK at EuroSkills in Austria next year has…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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DfE change of heart: catch-up funding can be for students with GCSE English and maths

The government has given in to pressure to widen the number of students eligible for 16 to 19 catch-up…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Minister says the quality of an FE course should be judged by job outcomes

The FE sector should judge the quality of their training programmes on the jobs that learners end up in,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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Apprenticeship providers call on government to find three months of ‘catch-up’ cash

The volume of apprentices who require more training due to Covid-19 interruptions is starting to “spiral steeply”, providers have…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Colleges need cash to employ ‘business innovation account managers’, says AoC

A lack of funding is holding colleges back from hiring “specific business innovation account managers” to help initiate an…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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‘Nothing to fear’ if colleges brought into public ownership, says AoC chief in tense exchange with MPs

Colleges have “nothing to fear” about being brought into public ownership, the head of their membership organisation told MPs…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofqual calls time on estimated grades for BTECs and other vocational qualifications

Ofqual has ruled out the use of calculated grades to award vocational and technical qualifications (VTQs) again. Following this…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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College leaders called on to help prevent unnecessary surge in coronavirus testing

Principals have been urged to stop students and staff with a sore throat or headache from getting unnecessary coronavirus…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofqual and the exams fiasco: 8 interesting things we learned

Senior staff from the exams regulator were hauled infront of the education select committee today where they were grilled…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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

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

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

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…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor