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National training provider and major retailer both ‘inadequate’ says Ofsted

A national training provider has plummeted from an Ofsted outstanding rating to inadequate, while employer provider Next has also been…

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FE Week Reporter
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Day 2 WorldSkills | TeamUK competitor’s shipments of Brazilian plaster and months of training in attempt for gold

Some ingenious thinking about the difference between British and Brazilian plaster could lead TeamUK competitor Robert Johnson to gold….

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FE Week Reporter
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Video | Team UK’s journey so far at World Skills 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIWi7TabLVE

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FE Week Reporter
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SFA moratorium on approval of new qualifications will ’cause havoc’ warns sector chief

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) will enforce a “moratorium” on the approval of qualifications until plans to “simplify and…

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FE Week Reporter
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Ofsted monitoring visit finds ‘reasonable’ level of improvement for learners at Lewisham Southwark College

Ofsted has recognised a “reasonable” level of improvement for learners in all areas in its latest monitoring visit report…

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FE Week Reporter
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Labour leadership candidates spell out their priorities for FE

The Labour leadership candidates have spelled out what their FE priorities would be up to the next general election…

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Sector leaders praise ‘fantastic’ satisfaction rates with higher education at FE colleges

Sector leaders have hailed the “fantastic” satisfaction rates of students at FE colleges with higher education courses in spite…

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FE Week Reporter
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Live updates: A level results day

As learners up and down the country find out what their next in life will be, we’ll be keeping…

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FE Week Reporter
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AELP chief calls for more independent learning provider involvement with WorldSkills

As competition at WorldSkills 2015 gets into full swing in Brazil, the Association for Employment and Learning Providers (AELP)…

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FE Week Reporter
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Three sentenced over loans scam at London college

These three men have been sentenced after conspiring together in a loans scam at a London college. Nathan Simmons…

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‘Share the lessons of Sao Paulo,’ flag-waving competitors are told as WorldSkills 2015 opens

The flag-bearing best young tradesmen and women of the world were urged to share with everyone the life lessons…

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Singing, dancing and an ambassador’s welcome mark Team UK visit to Sao Paulo schoolchildren

It had singing, it had dancing, it had speeches and it had an international flavour — no, it wasn’t the…

Nick Linford
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Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

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