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27 April 2026

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DWP question time April 2026: Live blog

1h | Politics
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From clawbacks to giving back: David Withey, SGS College

3d | Colleges
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Secrecy for seven ends as devolution budgets revealed

3d | Adult education
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Cheap means nasty for apprenticeship units, say providers

3d | Apprenticeships
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Regulator probes collapse of engineering trainer
3d | Apprenticeships
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NOCN lays foundations for ‘skills passport’ fight
3d | Awarding

FE exit numbers still ‘stubbornly high’ but improving
3d | FE workforce

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Benefit losses force teens to ditch apprenticeships

4d | Apprenticeships

Sponsored academy students make ‘less ambitious’ post-16 choices

4d | Colleges

Waltham Forest College names Jane Button as next principal

4d | Colleges

Bauckham issues first rebuke over exam forms blunder

5d | Awarding

Skills England bosses quizzed by MPs

5d | Skills reform

Revealed: Funding rates and delivery hours for apprenticeship units

6d | Apprenticeships

Novus selected again to deliver West Midlands prison education
7d | Prison education

Education questions April 2026: Live blog
7d | Politics
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Death sentence for jails’ work-programme expansion
1w | Prison education
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‘Heartbreaking’: How colleges are forced to turn away students as demand outstrips space
1w | Colleges