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AELP calls on government to fund level two apprenticeships in full

Level two apprenticeships should be fully funded by the government at every age group, the AELP has said. This…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Festival of Learning award winners named

A refugee who fled Afghanistan alone at the age of 16 has been crowned ‘outstanding individual learner’ at this…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Corbyn speaking at AoC annual conference

Jeremy Corbyn will address this year’s Association of Colleges annual conference. The annual event at at the ICC in…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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ETF tenders new FE training programme for future CEOs

Half a million pounds is on offer to run a new leadership training programme for senior FE managers looking…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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AoC boss expresses regret over 1 per cent pay offer

The Association of Colleges has expressed regret for offering staff a one-per-cent payrise – and has come in for…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Cable backs lifelong learning accounts at Lib Dems conference

The Liberal Democrat leader has backed the creation of lifelong learning accounts in his party conference speech today. Sir…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord


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Two thirds of loan-funded learners from collapsed providers still lack alternative provision

Over two thirds of learners from providers that have collapsed – leaving them with huge loan debt but no…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Grenfell fire survivor leads battle to save college campus

A college in one of London’s richest boroughs has delayed its final decision on whether to abandon one of…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Ofsted watch: Major retailer ‘requires improvement’

A major retailer has failed to improve its in-house apprenticeship provision beyond a grade three, in a less than…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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MP blasts stalled merger as a ‘hostile takeover’

An MP is demanding urgent action from both the education secretary and the FE commissioner over fears that their…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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DfE given legal ultimatum over botched adult education budget tender

Private providers have given the government until the end of this week to find a solution to the “tragedy”…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Sixth form colleges’ cash crisis exposed

Two sixth-form colleges have such severe financial problems that their very futures are threatened, after shocking reports were published…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke

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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…

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

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Jessica Hill
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Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

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Billy Camden
Colleges

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel