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Government turns to European Union funding to support T-levels

The government is looking to the European Social Fund to help tackle the barriers that rural areas face with…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Theresa May uses last PMQs to plead with Boris Johnson to invest more in FE

Outgoing prime minister Theresa May used her last speech at the dispatch box to plead with her successor to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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The 11 things we learned from the DfE’s and ESFA’s 2018-19 accounts

Both the Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency have today published their annual accounts for 2018-19,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Skills minister Anne Milton resigns

Apprenticeships and skills minister Anne Milton has resigned from government. She announced the move on Twitter ahead of the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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WorldSkills 2019: Meet Team UK

With the WorldSkills 2019 competition only a month away, we introduce the 37 members of Team UK that’ll be…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Victory for Grenfell campaigners as government pledges £32.3m to buy back college campus

The government has pledged up to £32.3 million to help buy back a college campus that serves the community…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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DfE confirms popular BTECs amongst qualifications facing funding axe

More than 160 “duplicate qualifications” at level 3 and below will have their funding removed from August 2020 –…

Simon Kay
Simon Kay
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Ofsted watch: Unimpressive week for new private providers

Five early monitoring reports for independent providers returned ‘insufficient’ ratings this week, with Ofsted finding some have not recruited…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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MPs urge DfE to ‘urgently’ raise the 16-18 rate and develop a 10-year funding plan

The government must “urgently address the damage that has been done” to FE by raising the 16 to 18…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Six things we learned from the IfATE’s 2018/19 accounts

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today published its annual accounts for 2018/19. This is only the…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Eleventh UTC to close after student numbers almost halve

An ‘inadequate’ university technical college is to close just four years after opening as it is “no longer financially…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Hard to believe? Ofsted found apprentices and their employers did not know they were on the programme

A private provider has been slammed by Ofsted after it found learners and their employers unaware they were taking…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

Must read

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
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