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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…

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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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Ofsted revisits grade three college amid signs of falling standards

A huge college rocked by a string of senior leadership departures that’s currently rated ‘requires improvement’ by Ofsted has…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Government loophole allows apprenticeship brokerage to continue

Taking fees for brokering apprenticeship funding is acceptable, according to correspondence from the Skills Funding Agency – as long…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord

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