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London to clamp down on funding for out-of-area colleges

Eastleigh is one of over 30 colleges that could lose millions as part of plans to end out-of-area providers…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Chair quits at college stung by £20m scandal and replaced by DfE consultant

A college rocked by a £20 million apprenticeship scandal is now being run by a Department for Education consultant…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Subcontracting warning from government after £20m Brooklands College scandal

The boss of the Education and Skills Funding Agency has sent a sector-wide letter warning she will take strong…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Boss of AoC critical of vice-chancellors spending university cash on ‘wine and beer’

The Augar report could be “dead” after university vice-chancellors whinged they couldn’t “possibly survive” on slashed tuition fees “because…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Minister admits no power to stop Stourbridge College becoming residential flats

An education minister has admitted the government has no power to preserve Stourbridge College’s site for educational use, heightening…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Revealed: The awarding bodies delivering the second wave of T-levels

The awarding organisations that will develop, deliver and award the seven T-levels being rolled out from 2021 are NCFE…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


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T-levels dropped by education secretary’s former sixth form ahead of 2020 launch

The education secretary’s former sixth form college has pulled out of offering two T-level pathways ahead of their launch…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Sector reacts to education secretary’s promise to ‘supercharge’ FE

The education secretary Gavin Williamson put FE centre stage during an impassioned speech at the Conservative Party Conference today….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Williamson pledges to ‘supercharge’ FE and overtake Germany within a decade

The education secretary has promised to deliver a “revolution in technical education”, and announced a target of overtaking Germany…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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DfE to tender for 8 new Institutes of Technology

A further eight Institutes of Technology are to be created by the government through a new £120 million tender,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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First college to win Careers and Enterprise Company award

Westminster Kingsway College has become the first ever college to win a gong at the Careers and Enterprise Company’s…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Ofsted watch: Popular Italian restaurant chain served delectable report

A popular Italian restaurant chain has been served a complimentary report by Ofsted during a week of mostly positive…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu

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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
Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps

Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps

Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments

Billy Camden
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