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Ofqual rules out tendering to take over apprenticeship quality assurance

Ofqual has ruled itself out of delivering the apprenticeship external quality assurance service for the Institute for Apprenticeships and…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Education that gets out of classrooms and into the community

Six per cent of adults with learning disabilities are in paid employment – something that specialist colleges are working…

Catherine Murray
Catherine Murray
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Second chair resigns from college group embroiled in financial scandal

The chair of the boards of governors for the troubled Hadlow College and West Kent and Ashford College has…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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DfE department responsible for apprenticeship policy has hardly any apprentices

The division responsible for running and promoting apprenticeships within the Department for Education employs the lowest proportion of apprentices…

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino
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ESFA audits to check apprenticeship price reductions made to account for prior work experience

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has reminded providers to conduct prior learning assessments when taking on apprentices, and…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Team UK selected for WorldSkills 2019 in Kazan

More than 30 of the country’s best and brightest young skilled people have been chosen to represent the UK…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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Ofsted watch: Exemplary week for universities

Universities showed off their apprenticeship delivery skills this week, as one was rated ‘outstanding’ while another was judged to…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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FE Commissioner pushing for mega merger to secure Cornwall College’s future

The FE Commissioner is pushing for a mega merger in Cornwall to secure the future of Cornwall College, which…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Editor Asks: Anne Milton responds to the NAO apprenticeships report

Anne Milton initially seemed in good spirits when I began our interview at a coffee shop at the University for East London’s…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Major bank stands by college fighting for survival following second failed merger

A major high street bank will “remain supportive” of a cash-strapped college that owes it over £6 million, despite fears the college…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

The truth about The Hadlow Group financial scandal

The Hadlow Group has hit the headlines following allegations of financial irregularities and the departure of several senior leaders…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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T-level transition offer tender slammed for exclusivity and secrecy

The Department for Education has been accused of “locking out” small firms in a highly restrictive and secretive T-level…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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