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Revealed: The 12 colleges to receive targeted careers training

The Association of Colleges is to receive over £400,000 to teach staff in 12 colleges to deliver effective careers…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Education committee chair urges chancellor to increase core FE funding

The chair of education select committee has urged the chancellor to “look very carefully” at the core level of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ministers lobby for change in UTC admission age

The government is lobbying those in charge of controversial university technical colleges to move away from recruitment at 14,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Revealed: Six more apprenticeship providers banned from taking new recruits

Six more poor-performing apprenticeship providers have been barred from taking on new starts – bringing the total up to…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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IfA consulting on content for three new T-level pathways

The Institute for Apprenticeships is seeking input from providers, awarding organisations and employers on the draft content for three…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Another boss of huge college group in financial trouble resigns with immediate effect

The principal of one of the biggest college groups in the country has stepped down with immediate effect. John…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Cash-strapped merged college handed ESFA warning over ‘inadequate’ finances

A recently merged college with historical cash problems has received a financial health notice to improve after the government…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Will DfE ban new apprenticeship providers with poor AEB provision in monitoring visits?

Ofsted is rating adult education in their monitoring visits of new apprenticeship providers – but the government doesn’t know…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Revealed: How 3aaa spent £1.6m on sponsorship at sports clubs

Crisis-hit Aspire Achieve Advance spent over £1.6 million of its mostly government-funded income on professional sports sponsorship deals. One…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted on hunt for more apprenticeship inspectors

Ofsted is on the look out to recruit 10 FE experts as inspectors while it ramps up its workforce…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Ofsted watch: A mostly positive week for FE and skills

It’s been a mostly positive week for FE and skills, with one provider receiving a grade two on its…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

3aaa co-founder embroiled in police probe resigns as chair of academy trust

The co-founder of Aspire Achieve Advance has resigned from his position as chair of an academy trust, after the…

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