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T-level placement pilot only includes one independent training provider

Just one independent training provider has been included in the government’s 45-day work placement pilot for T-levels – as…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Exeter College comes top in FE Week’s league table – again

Exeter College reigns supreme as the best college in the country for the second year running in FE Week’s…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Colleges win £5.2m through AEB procurement

A total of £5.2 million was shared among 19 general FE colleges during the recent adult education budget procurement,…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Skills Show 2017: Ministers descend on Birmingham in their droves

An A-list parliamentary cast arrived in Birmingham today to help tackle the “nightmare on skills street” that Britain currently…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Corbyn threatens independence of colleges

Colleges’ status as independent corporations could be at risk under Labour’s plan for free lifelong learning, Jeremy Corbyn has…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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‘Inadequate’ Ofsted blow for Tees Valley college

A college in the Tees Valley has received the lowest possible Ofsted rating, facing particular criticism for “inadequate” leadership…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Education select committee launches inquiry into apprenticeships and skills training

A new inquiry into the quality of apprenticeships and skills training has been launched by the House of Commons…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Chief executive standing down from troubled college group

Bradford College has confirmed that its group chief executive is stepping down after it received both a financial notice…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Weston College takes two gongs at the AoC Beacon Awards

The AoC Beacon Award winners, which recognise innovative and outstanding activities in colleges across the UK, have been announced….

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Summit to launch ‘skills revolution’ with employers

The government will host a special summit at the end of this month to launch a new ‘skills partner’…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Spielman: Ofsted to begin hunt for ‘scandalous’ apprenticeship providers

Ofsted will conduct early monitoring visits at new providers entering the apprenticeship market to sniff out any “scandalous” attempts…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Over 70,000 to attend sixth annual Skills Show this week

More than 70,000 visitors are expected to pack out the sixth annual Skills Show in Birmingham this week, and…

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…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

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…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

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

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

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Jessica Hill
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