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Northern Powerhouse education report: the eight findings for FE and skills

The Northern Powerhouse Partnership has today published a major report on how the region can close the education and…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Cambridge University and Greggs among 354 organisations added to register of apprenticeship training providers

The government increased the size of the register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP) by 354 today, pushing the total to…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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FE Commissioner’s annual report encourages colleges to use £700m bailout fund while they can

Financially struggling colleges should seek bailouts from the restructuring fund while they still can, the FE commissioner has said…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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NUS president Shakira Martin engulfed in ‘bullying’ row

A row has erupted in the upper echelons of the National Union of Students, as its president wants to…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Stafford MP Jeremy Lefroy wades into non-levy row

Colleges must all have access to funding for apprenticeships with smaller employers, according to the latest MP to weigh…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Carillion apprentices WILL be paid after January, DfE confirms

Any former Carillion apprentice who is yet to find alternative employment following the collapse of the outsourcing giant will…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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Manchester Creative Studio will be 18th studio school to close

A struggling studio school with low pupil numbers and “significant financial challenges” will close this summer, it has been…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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No right to fully-funded digital skills training until 2020

A change to adult education funding rules that will put digital skills training on a par with English and…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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AoC demands colleges are omitted from ‘misleading’ school progress data

The AoC wants colleges to be excluded from the government’s published progress data claiming it is based on school…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Milton promises to find ‘the right solution’ for ‘precious’ Kensington and Chelsea College

The furore surrounding the future of a west London college in the shadow of the Grenfell Tower has made…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Carillion apprentices will not be paid after January, report claims

Apprentices left jobless following the collapse of outsourcing giant Carillion will not be paid after January, it has been…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Victory for Grenfell campaigners as FE Commissioner scraps colleges’ merger

A merger between two London colleges has been called off following direct intervention from the FE commissioner, triggered by…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord

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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
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