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18 April 2026

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Death sentence for jails’ work-programme expansion

2d | Prison education
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‘Heartbreaking’: How colleges are forced to turn away students as demand outstrips space

2d | Colleges

Scrapping essays over AI fears ‘never off the table’, says Ofqual boss

2d | Awarding

CEO faces ruin after fighting directors’ bonus plan

2d | Awarding
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Don’t scrap industry-prized diploma, pleads BRIT School boss
2d | Colleges

Exam board fined £270,000 over errors in physics papers
2d | Awarding

£9m keeps complex-needs job finder scheme alive
2d | Inclusion

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Inquiry vote backed as City & Guilds members demand answers

3d | Awarding

Colleges face funding squeeze as DfE rations student growth cash again

3d | Colleges

‘Stepping-stone’ GCSEs risk halting social mobility progress, SMC report warns

3d | Colleges

‘Experts at hand’ cash must not plug ‘existing gaps’, councils told

3d | Inclusion

Team UK for WorldSkills Shanghai revealed

4d | WorldSkills

Revealed: The next 19 ‘technical excellence colleges’

4d | Colleges

Unions start the clock on binding college pay reform
5d | FE workforce

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‘The absolute friend is the truth’: inside Byron Nicolaides’ reckoning over City & Guilds
5d | Awarding

London mayor uses unspent adult skills funding for youth NEETs programme
1w | Adult education

Healthcare provider stops new starts amid Ofsted ‘urgent improvement’ verdict
1w | Apprenticeships