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Monthly update: apprenticeship starts down 23 per cent in December

UPDATED: To ensure we’re comparing like with like, the table has been updated to include provisional figures from August…

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Jude Burke
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Three senior Team Wearside staff jailed for £460,000 fraud

An ex-chief executive of a training provider and two of her former colleagues have been sentenced to a total…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Shakira Martin re-elected as NUS president

FE champion Shakira Martin (pictured above) has survived a row over allegations of bullying to be re-elected as president…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Federation of Awarding Bodies appoints Tom Bewick as new chief executive

The Federation of Awarding Bodies has announced skills and enterprise policy expert Tom Bewick as its new chief executive…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Guildford College to join Activate Learning

A cash-strapped college that was forced to seek a merger after it became only the second institution to return…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Applications open for nine new T-level employer panels

Representatives from business are being asked to apply to join panels that will help develop new T-levels. The Department for…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord


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Second wave of college strikes over pay begins today

The second wave of strike action by University and College Union members has begun, in an ongoing dispute over…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Learndirect’s second Ofsted monitoring visit: 15 key findings

The second monitoring visit report on crisis-hit Learndirect has been published by Ofsted. This was the second reinspection monitoring…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Bids to open for share of new construction retraining fund in April

Bidding is to open next month for a share of a new construction retraining fund worth tens of millions…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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First Ofsted subcontracting visit report criticises Wigan and Leigh College

The first ever report of an Ofsted monitoring visit into subcontracting has found that governors and senior management at…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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More traineeships are leading to apprenticeships

The proportion of young people who complete a traineeship and move on to an apprenticeship has risen but it…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Ofsted Watch: Encouraging week for adult and community learning providers

A strong week for adult and community learning providers saw three climb up from ‘requires improvement’ ratings. Slough Pitstop…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord

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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
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DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

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As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

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Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

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Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

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Billy Camden