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Trailblazer apprenticeship figures revealed for first time

Official figures for the government’s Trailblazer apprenticeship scheme have been published for the first time — and they show…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Government’s 3m apprenticeships target ‘largely unfunded’ — and rest of FE will pay, warns post-16 policy adviser Wolf

Government plans to create 3m apprenticeship starts by 2020 are “largely unfunded,” post-16 policy adviser Professor Lady Alison Wolf…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Boles justifies apprenticeships favour

Skills Minister Nick Boles has justified the government’s emphasis on apprenticeships at the cost of adult education by pointing…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Struggling Totton College opts to ‘join with’ national charity after Ofsted brands provision ‘inadequate’

A struggling sixth form college in Hampshire has announced plans to become part of a national crime prevention charity…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Spend apprenticeship funding ‘more effectively’ with training providers which identify demand, AELP urges government

Apprenticeship funding could be “more effectively spent” with independent learning providers which can provide evidence of additional demand from…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Adult learners’ struggles to achieve recognised at lavish annual awards ceremony

Adult learners who battled against the odds, against self-doubt and previous bad experiences to return to education were honoured…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Ofsted gets scrutiny boards after ‘transparency’ criticism

New regional scrutiny committees will consider complaints about Ofsted from September as the education watchdog acts to address transparency…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Chartered Status body wins sector support but role questions remain

Further education leaders have thrown their support behind FE Chartered Status after it was approved by the Queen. The…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE Commissioner’s London review among number of reports

An “area-based assessment” is being carried out by FE Commissioner Dr David Collins (pictured) into provision in South London’s Lewisham,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Conservatives ‘U-turn’ over enforced apprenticeships

The Conservatives have been accused of making an “apparent U-turn” over enforced apprentice recruitment. Department for Business, Innovation and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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New committee chairs promise era of collaboration

Newly-elected Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee chair Iain Wright has outlined his plans for greater collaboration with…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Higher education cash should go to ‘falling over’ FE

The government should take some of the “buckets of cash” given to higher education and use it to prop…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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