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Apprenticeship providers turning away up to 40,000 small employers due to levy shortage

Training providers are “having to turn their backs” on up to 40,000 small businesses due to the shortfall in…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Small employers finally given access to all registered providers – but for just 3 apprentices

Small employers can now use the digital apprenticeship service – but they will be initially capped at just three…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Want to offer T-level courses? DfE seeks providers for wave three

FE providers can now bid to deliver T-levels in the third year of their rollout, the Department for Education…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Government ‘committed’ to Erasmus+ scheme despite commons vote outcome

The government has insisted it remains committed to Erasmus+, despite MPs voting against requiring officials to negotiate continuing full…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Leading college starts redundancy process after finding a shock £6m deficit

A high-profile college that uncovered a shock £6 million deficit when the finance director went on sick leave has…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Police force stung by Ofsted

A police force has been censured by Ofsted for the “poor” quality of its apprenticeship delivery and for not…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


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Squad UK for WorldSkills Shanghai 2021 named

Almost 150 young people have been named in WorldSkills UK’s official squad, marking them as candidates for the team…

Simon Kay
Simon Kay
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Labour’s new shadow minister says she’ll ‘fight’ for FE

Emma Hardy is to be Labour’s new shadow FE and HE minister, with a pledge to continue “fighting” government…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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UK to take first steps towards hosting WorldSkills

The UK is to take its first steps towards hosting the international WorldSkills competition by gauging interest from the…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

City & Guilds CEO to step down

The chief executive of education giant City & Guilds is stepping down. Chris Jones will leave on 31 January,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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FE lecturers have lowest levels of wellbeing among educators, new analysis suggests

Lecturers in FE have the lowest levels of positive wellbeing and “stand out” as having high levels of anxiety…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Angela Rayner to run for Labour deputy leadership

The shadow education secretary Angela Rayner will run to be Labour’s deputy leader, she will announce today. The Ashton-under-Lyne…

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