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Regulator probes collapse of engineering trainer
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NOCN lays foundations for ‘skills passport’ fight
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Sponsored academy students make ‘less ambitious’ post-16 choices
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Waltham Forest College names Jane Button as next principal
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Bauckham issues first rebuke over exam forms blunder
Exam board WJEC shamed by Ofqual following admin failure that spanned six years
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Skills England bosses quizzed by MPs
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Skills reform
Live updates as Skills England leaders grilled by DWP select committee
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Revealed: Funding rates and delivery hours for apprenticeship units
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Novus selected again to deliver West Midlands prison education
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Education questions April 2026: Live blog
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Death sentence for jails’ work-programme expansion
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‘Heartbreaking’: How colleges are forced to turn away students as demand outstrips space
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