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Colleges should seize ‘digital renewal’ to reimagine the student experience for the new normal

With online enrolment and hybrid learning environments set to become ‘the new norm’ from September 2020, students are left…

Bridget Stockdale
Bridget Stockdale
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ESFA director of funding poached by Cabinet Office

The Education and Skills Funding Agency’s first overall director of funding – appointed just last year to oversee a…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Gavin Williamson’s speech on FE reform: The full text

Hello. It is a great pleasure to be here with you today and I’d like to thank not only…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Government to reveal plans this autumn to create an employer led ‘German-style’ FE system

Education secretary Gavin Williamson will today pledge that the upcoming White Paper for further education will lead to a…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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DfE will allow adults to return to class from next Monday

Colleges and training providers can welcome back “priority” adult learners from July 13, the Department for Education has announced…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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‘Kickstarter’ young employees cannot also be apprentices, Treasury confirms

Young people who take part in the government’s £2 billion “kickstart” scheme cannot also be apprentices, the Treasury has…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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Speed read: What the chancellor’s summer statement promised for FE and skills

Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered a summer statement today in which he outlined the government’s “plan for jobs” to tackle…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Extra £101m for school and college leavers to return for a third year

The government has pledged £101 million to give all 18 to 19 year olds who are struggling to find…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Chancellor announces ‘brand-new bonus for businesses to hire apprentices’

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a “brand new bonus” for employers to hire apprentices over the next six months….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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DfE scraps T-level subject after employers express ‘viability and deliverability concerns’

The rollout of T-levels has taken another slip after the government canned a subject and delayed the start of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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FE Commissioner tells MPs he thinks dozens of colleges could run out of cash next year

There are 30 to 40 colleges “at risk of running out of cash” following the coronavirus crisis, the FE…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Chancellor expected to reveal sliding scale of employer cash incentives to boost apprenticeships

The chancellor is set to announce a sliding scale of cash incentives for employers to take on both young…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

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DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

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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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