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Another UTC to lower 14-19 age range from September

Another university technical college is scrapping its 14 to 19 age criteria and will start recruiting 13-year-olds from this…

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Fraser Whieldon
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ESFA warns college over finances after bank covenant breach

A college has been moved into FE Commissioner intervention after it breached a bank covenant and had to reclassify…

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Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Ofsted watch: Radio company that runs Kiss FM among 7 ‘good’ reports

A high-profile radio company that runs UK stations such as Kiss FM and Magic was among seven FE providers…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Senior MPs to grill DfE on £792m spent on troubled UTCs

The public accounts committee (PAC) will quiz officials from the Department for Education on the financial stability of university…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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DfE launches last-minute T-level placements research

The government has embarked on a very last-minute mission to find out if students could fail to secure the…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Struggling Gateshead delays annual accounts as auditors conclude investigation

A college has delayed signing off on its 2018/19 accounts as forensic investigators shed light on its unexpected £6…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu


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DfE stats lay bare drastic SME shift following levy launch

The Department for Education has revealed for the first time how the introduction of the apprenticeship levy in 2017…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Shrewsbury college loses grade 4 battle with Ofsted

A college accused of serious safeguarding failures has failed to overturn an ‘inadequate’ judgment following a second visit from…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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BMet sells Stourbridge campus for just £3.55m

A college campus that was controversially closed last summer has been sold for £3.55 million, just five years after…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Entrepreneur tops MBA apprenticeship table with £3m starts in September

  The controversial level 7 senior leader apprenticeship has again hit the headlines in recent days, after the education…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Broker offering subcontracting deal for ‘completed’ 16-18 sport trainees

A learner find firm is attempting to broker a subcontracting deal for 16 to 18-year-old trainees who have already…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Cashing in on MBA apprentices: CMI income rockets as CEO pockets £66,500 bonus

It is boom time at the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), a charity with a turnover last year of £15…

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As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

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

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Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

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