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Ofsted praises 100% positive progression rate for students at ‘outstanding’ UTC

A university technical college in Hull has been dubbed a “guiding light in the education sector” after being rated…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Unions increase opposition to college reopening by warning leaders over Covid-19 ‘legal liability’

Unions have fired off a Covid-19 “liability” warning shot to school and college leaders – quoting the health and…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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ESFA launches Covid-19 supplier relief for European Social Fund providers

The government has today launched a Covid-19 supplier relief scheme for training providers with European Social Fund (ESF) contracts….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Colleges will need to create student ‘bubbles’ to reduce Covid risk but ‘real challenge’, says AoC

The Association of Colleges has warned that reducing interaction and mixing in colleges is “going to be a real…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Unfair: Sutton Trust finds young disadvantaged ‘losing out’ on degree apprenticeships

Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are “losing out” on degree level apprenticeships as they soar in popularity without “fair…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted triggers government intervention at specialist college

A new college for students with special educational needs and disabilities has been suspended from recruiting learners after receiving…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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Free recording: In conversation with skills minister Gillian Keegan

FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan this afternoon for our latest webinar on the response to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Take the ‘opportunity’ to reopen from June, says skills minister

Colleges that refuse to begin face-to-face teaching with students before the next academic year will “lose an opportunity to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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ESFA reveals new further education director

Kirsty Evans has been appointed as the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s new acting director of further education. She…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Coronavirus delays troubled college’s merger until autumn

A cash-strapped college’s merger plans have been delayed owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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12-day window to submit GCSE English and math grades, new Ofqual guidance reveals

Exams regulator Ofqual has released a few more details about its grading plans this summer, ahead of the publication…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Apprentices ALSO expected to receive face-to-face training from June

Apprentices aged 16 to 19 will also be expected to restart face-to-face contact with their training provider from June….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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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