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DfE accounts lack ‘truth and fairness’ says finance watchdog

The Department for Education’s financial statements lack “truth and fairness” according to the government’s audit watchdog. The department (DfE)…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Shakira Martin re-elected as NUS vice president for FE

The National Union of Students has voted to keep its vice president for FE for a second term. Shakira…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Department for Education announces new permanent secretary

The government has today announced who will be taking over from Chris Wormald as the head civil servant at…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Consultation launched on plans to merge college with university

Bury College has launched a consultation on its proposed merger with the University of Bolton. The move was first…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Area review completion delays drag on as new six month target missed

At least three of the seven regions involved in the first wave of post-16 education and training area reviews…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Level three vocational route on rise as A-levels fall

The number of 19-year-olds gaining level three through A-levels has fallen for the first time in seven years, while…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Government misses target to recruit volunteer careers advisers

The Government has admitted to missing its target to recruit 300 ‘volunteer enterprise advisers’ by the end of March…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Colleges agree ‘hub and spoke’ London proposal could work

The 157 Group’s proposals for a ‘hub and spoke’ approach to provision at level 3 and above in London…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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No easy answers for volunteers in apprenticeship levy, Boles says

Skills Minister Nick Boles (pictured) has accepted there are no immediate solutions to “difficulties” that the apprenticeship levy will…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Hackney Community College principal named new president of AoC

The Association of Colleges (AoC) has announced Ian Ashman, principal of Hackney Community College, as its President-elect. Mr Ashman…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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CBI warns institute must not just ‘rubber-stamp’ standards

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has criticised the body established to police the reformed apprenticeship system as having…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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The multi-million-pound ‘cowboy’ trade in subcontracting

> ‘No win no fee’ brokers raking in up to five per  cent commission fees on seven figure contracts…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

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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
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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
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…

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Jessica Hill
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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

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Billy Camden