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Ofsted slams large employer provider with no apprenticeship passes – again

A large employer provider in the security sector that was suspended from recruiting apprentices last year has been rated…

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino
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City and Guilds calls for new quango to oversee skills policy

The City and Guilds Group has called for the creation of a new independent body to oversee skills policy…

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino
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Revealed: The 19 areas splitting £2.5m in careers hubs funding

The government has announced the names of 19 areas that will join its careers hubs programme, but they will…

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino
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Government reveals flexibilities for T-level industry placement

Flexibilities will be added to the controversial 315-hour minimum industry placement in T-levels – including allowing multiple placements at…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted watch: Two providers rated ‘inadequate’ for apprenticeships

A private provider has dropped two grades to ‘inadequate’ and a sixth form college was rated grade four for…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Love Our Colleges Week re-convenes ahead of the comprehensive spending review

Following the first national Colleges Week last October, the Association of Colleges has held a further week of activities…

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino


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Providers face further wait on tender outcome as GLA wrestles with queries

Providers awaiting the outcome of the Greater London Authority’s adult education budget tender will not be told the outcome…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Mystery surrounds second delay to Havering College merger plans

A cash-strapped college’s future has been thrown into doubt after a merger it was depending on to sort out…

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino
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Scandal-hit Hadlow College first to go through insolvency regime

The ongoing financial scandal engulfing Hadlow College has led to it having the dubious honour of becoming the first…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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‘We are restless for solutions’: Grenfell community meets the PM about ‘threat’ to local college

Campaigners battling to save a college campus that serves the community affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster have pleaded…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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College to axe A-level department at a time of quality and financial concerns

A college that crashed two grades from ‘outstanding’ last year is consulting on plans to close down its A-level…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Revealed: The 21 winners of the West Midlands AEB tender

The first winners from a devolved adult education budget (AEB) competitive procurement process have been told the good news….

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

Must read

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
Billy Camden and Frances Read