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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…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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UK colleges remain open in Coronavirus ‘delay’ phase as France and Ireland set to close

Closing schools and colleges at this stage in the spread of the coronavirus epidemic could do “more harm than…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Minister promises ‘significant funding’ in ‘coming year’ for SME apprenticeships, claims AELP

New skills minister Gillian Keegan has pledged “significant funding” for additional small business apprenticeships in the “coming year”, the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Revealed: DfE finds small employers now account for just 27% of apprenticeship starts

The Department for Education has this morning published “analysis looking at the impact of the introduction of the apprenticeship…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Treasury pours cold water on hopes for extra SME apprenticeship funding

Hopes for new apprenticeship funding have been swiftly crushed after the Treasury confirmed that today’s budget offers no extra…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Budget DOES include manifesto promise of extra £4bn of FE funding in England

The chancellor has confirmed the Conservative manifesto commitments for FE, including a £1.5 billion boost to upgrade college buildings…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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Skills reform

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

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

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

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

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

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…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

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…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
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