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Learndirect did not get ‘anywhere near’ winning legal battle against Ofsted, judge says

The country’s largest FE provider didn’t get “anywhere near” quashing its now infamous ‘inadequate’ rating during its legal fight…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Government should do more to increase 16 to 18 apprenticeships, new report urges

The government should do more to boost the number of 16- to 18-year-olds doing apprenticeships due to the “overwhelming”…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Minister sets out success measures for FE Commissioner

The FE commissioner’s performance will be judged by the number of colleges falling into intervention among other measures, according…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Three-time ‘inadequate’ college merger completes

A college that was recently rated ‘inadequate’ for the third time in five years has finally completed a merger….

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Launch of apprenticeship levy transfer limited to just one receiving employer

Employers who are gearing up to transfer apprenticeship levy funds to other organisations from next month will only be…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Troubled Essex college set for merger rescue

A college that was told a year ago that it couldn’t survive on its own has announced plans to…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke


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Government ‘must act now’ to replace European funding, new report urges

The government must “urgently” design a successor programme to the European Social Fund to avoid a “disastrous” post-Brexit funding…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Labour launches National Education Service consultation

The Labour Party has today launched a consultation on its plans for a National Education Service. Running for 12…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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College branded ‘unsafe’ in damning Ofsted report

A Northamptonshire college has been slammed with a grade four by Ofsted for delivering “unsafe” training in “highly dangerous…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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14 colleges receive cash from the strategic improvement fund

Fourteen general FE and sixth-form colleges have received grants through a fund designed to support failing colleges to improve…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Ofsted watch: Two providers pull up from ‘inadequate’

Two providers managed to pull themselves up from grade four this week – one to ‘good’ and the other…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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32 adult learning projects share £11.7 million fund

The projects which will share a £11.7 million fund to help more adults back into the classroom have been…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord

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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…

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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
Long read, Prison education

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

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Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

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Billy Camden