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Conservative Party admits IoT claim was an error

The Conservatives have promised to rectify a misleading claim it has made about further education in the build-up to…

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Billy Camden
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OCR becomes second exam board to breach re-mark rules

OCR will pay schools and colleges nearly £15,000 in compensation after becoming the second exam board to breach rules…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofqual reduce £50,000 apprenticeship assessment body fine to £8,595

Ofqual is penalising an end-point assessment organisation to the tune of £8,595 after it admitted to a “series of…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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UCU suspends 14 day strike after college offers new deal

Extensive strikes due to start at Nottingham College today were called off at the eleventh hour after leaders offered…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted to research subcontracting in FE

Ofsted is launching research into FE subcontracting – off the back of government plans for a radical overhaul of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Sixth form college leaders failed to spot ‘terminal’ finances

A sixth form college principal and governing body failed to identify its “now terminal” financial position, the Department for…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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UCU agrees deal to end long-running dispute at cash-strapped college

A deal to end a long-running dispute at Bradford College has been reached after it agreed to a series…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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ESFA announce 16-18 funding uplift for ‘crucial’ subjects

The government has today announced a further funding increase for 16 to 18 year-old students as part of the…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Pre-election rules delay Ofsted’s annual report

Ofsted will delay publication of its annual report as it seeks to avoid making any statements that relate to…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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‘Unfair’ funding rule costs colleges £1.5m

Colleges have hit back at the “unfair” English and maths condition of funding rule after FE Week found more…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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REVEALED: 2019 Asian Apprenticeship Awards winners

A learner who works at a major UK bank after spending most of her life in Pakistan and a…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Stourbridge College building on verge of sale to 350 year-old £12k a year state boarding school

A college which was controversially closed in the summer is set to be sold to a £12,000 a year…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu

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

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

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DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

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

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Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

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