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Another batch of apprenticeship standards up for funding band reviews

A second batch of apprenticeship standards will have their funding bands put up for review from tomorrow. The Institute…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Halfon blasts Careers and Enterprise Company for their ‘magic money tree’

The chair of the education select committee has laid into the Careers and Enterprise Company for believing it has…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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AOs investigate private provider to church groups following misuse of funding concerns

Multiple awarding organisations are investigating an apprenticeship provider to church community groups after Ofsted raised potential misuse of funding…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Spielman using perception not facts on arts and media job prospects, says principal

Ofsted’s view that colleges are giving students “false hope” by putting them on courses where there are slim job…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted Watch: Week of winners and losers in FE

It has been a mixed week for FE as two colleges succeeded in climbing higher in the ranks, while…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Government software to withhold up to £4,860 apprenticeship completion payment until employers pay their share

The Education and Skills Funding Agency is clamping down on employers who fail to pay the 10 per cent…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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College-run academy trusts in trouble

An academy trust run by a college has been warned it will be stripped of its only school if…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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FE commissioner: check with me before appointing a principal

The FE commissioner has urged college governors to check with him before appointing a principal as part of a…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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London mayor seeks special treatment amid AEB devolution ‘postcode lottery’ concerns

Fears are growing over the creation of a postcode lottery for adult learners, leading one devolved area to seek…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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UCU strike closes one college and affects five others

A walkout by more than 700 University and College Union members caused disruption across six colleges this week –…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Revealed: vast majority of loans-only providers are less than good

A massive 80 per cent of providers that only deliver provision funded by advanced learner loans have been rated…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Richard Atkins re-appointed FE commissioner for further 2 years

Richard Atkins has been re-appointed FE commissioner for a further two years, the Department for Education has revealed today….

Jude Burke
Jude Burke

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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
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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…

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Jessica Hill
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The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

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Jessica Hill
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Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

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Billy Camden
Colleges

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…

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Anviksha Patel