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Financial warning notice for UTC found to owe government £500k

A university technical college which was found to have owed the government over half a million pounds after it…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Inaugural AAC Awards: Worthy winners step up

The nation’s best training providers, employers and apprentices have been enshrined at the inaugural Annual Apprenticeship Awards at a…

FE Week
FE Week
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‘Deliver on apprentice travel cost pledge’, urges Robert Halfon

The chair of the Commons education select committee has urged the government to “deliver” on its election promise to…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Apprenticeship provider register won’t reopen until September

The register of apprenticeship training providers will not open again until September – nearly a year after the last…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Marsden: Labour would look at devolving apprenticeships and other skills funding

Labour’s proposed National Education Service would look at devolving apprenticeships and other skills funding, and not just the adult…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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20% off-the-job rule divides opinion again

The director of the National Apprenticeships Service has mounted a strident defence of the controversial 20-per-cent off-the-job training requirement….

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Ofsted appears to back colleges in Progress 8 battle

The credibility of a major new government progress measure is at stake after a college labelled as one of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Merger bulletin: the colleges in need of a partner

The area reviews of post-16 education and training ended last March. They were designed to establish “fewer, often larger,…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Ofsted to ‘expose’ rip-off subcontracting top-slices

Ofsted will expose training providers who rip-off apprentices by collecting subcontracting management fees without taking “responsibility for quality”, the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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AAC2018: CBI demands urgent levy upheaval

The apprenticeship levy is “not fit for purpose” and the sector needs much more flexibility on spending the cash…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Apprenticeship achievement rates up for 2016/17

Apprenticeship achievement rates have been shown to have risen for 2016/17, in the latest statistics released by the Department…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Twelve providers now have chartered status

A twelfth provider has achieved FE chartered status: Manchester’s Mantra Learning. The floodgates have seemingly started to open at…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord

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Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching

In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
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Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
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Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
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New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
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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

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel