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Elmfield Training purchased in pre-pack after going into administration

The majority of Elmfield Training’s business and assets has been sold to EQL Solutions Limited, which is one hundred…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Intervention inquiry welcomes FE Commissioner but calls for ‘better early warning signals’

A six-month inquiry into FE intervention has welcomed the government’s plan for an FE Commissioner, but called for “better…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Now that’s what I call a cabinet! – Triumphant Team UK in exclusive Whitehall reception

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg clearly appreciated this piece of fine furniture by award-winning young craftsman George Callow. The…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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More employers wanted as college governors say AoC

The Association of Colleges’ Governors’ Council wants more employers at board level, but rejected bringing back diversity quotas. It…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Ofqual announces detail of new maths and English GCSEs

Ofqual has published full details of the new maths and English GCSEs which will be introduced from 2015. In…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Exclusive: SFA ‘should scrap’ funding data deadline

More than four in every five FE data staff believe the funding data return for the 2013/14 academic year…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Support for agency chief in cancer fight

Warm tributes have been paid to Skills Funding Agency chief executive Kim Thorneywork after it was announced she was…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Elmfield staff ‘still in dark’ on future as administration looms

Hundreds of Elmfield Training staff could still be in the dark about their futures more than a week after…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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AoC stands firm over unqualified lecturers

The Association of Colleges (AoC) maintained its support for allowing member colleges to recruit unqualified lecturers, despite some college…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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SFA notice at City Coventry College remains despite ‘progress’

The Skills Funding Agency will not remove City College Coventry’s Notice of Concern, despite Ofsted ruling it had made…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Rejection for family learning plan proposal

The Department for Education (DfE) has rejected calls by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) for a…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Agency strips provider of £2.5m contract

A Lancashire-based training provider has been stripped of its £2.5m Skills Funding Agency contract following a damning Ofsted grading…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

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16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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
Politics, Skills reform

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…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill