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Confirmed: Exams watchdog to takeover apprenticeship assessment quality checks

Exams watchdog Ofqual is to take the lead in a  “new simplified external quality assurance (EQA) system” for apprenticeships…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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The Skills Network’s Free LMS To Accelerate Providers’ Online Delivery

Leading online learning provider, The Skills Network (TSN), has today announced that it will permanently offer its learning platform…

The Skills Network
The Skills Network
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Colleges in administration miss third transfer date as accountants continue to rack up fees

The only FE colleges in administration, Hadlow College and West Kent College, continue to be owned and run by…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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DfE launches new matching and redundancy support service for apprentices

A new service that allows employers to share their vacancies with redundant apprentices has been launched by the Department…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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ESFA scraps minimum duration repeat rule for returning apprentices

A minimum duration rule that was preventing some people from returning to and finishing an apprenticeship will be scrapped…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Adult education charity to close despite plans for a rescue deal

A long-running adult education charity in Brighton is to close with the loss of almost 50 jobs tomorrow after…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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ESFA scraps provider achievement rate reports

Colleges and training providers will not have access to qualification achievement rate (QAR) reports to use internally for 2019/20,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Monthly apprenticeships update: May starts fall 60%

Apprenticeship starts for the month of May 2020 fell 60 per cent on the previous year, figures published this…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

300 redundancies planned at England’s largest apprenticeship provider

England’s largest apprenticeship provider is planning to slash around 300 jobs as it battles with “significantly reduced” learner numbers…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

ESFA ‘withdraws’ AEB funding clawback plans following sector backlash

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has “withdrawn” plans to clawback this year’s unspent adult education budget grant funding…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Second round of ESFA Covid-19 supplier relief attracts 112 provider bids

Just 112 providers applied for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s second Covid-19 supplier relief scheme – and 35…

Simon Kay
Simon Kay
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ESFA plan traineeship funding tender despite history of tendering woes

The Education and Skills Funding Agency is to launch a tender to “quickly” widen the provider base for adult…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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Earpiece exam cheat ring jailed over construction test fraud

Men trained candidates to hide devices and exploit access arrangements to pass mandatory safety tests

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Adult education, Apprenticeships, Skills reform

Apprenticeships purge: Team leader and chartered manager among 16 axed standards

Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, Politics

Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’

The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund
Colleges, Long read

Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail

More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching

In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Young people

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel