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Careers advice hotline brought under one roof

Careers advice hotline services for young people and adults are to be brought under one roof after Serco was...

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Outstanding London provider achieves top marks across the board from Ofsted

East London Advanced Technology Training (ELATT) has scored top marks across the board to secure a grade one rating...

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Ofsted halving number of FE reports per year

Ofsted has announced plans to halve the number of times it publishes official FE statistics to two a year...

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Unionlearn rejects Labour apprenticeship policy as AELP looks five years ahead

Labour proposals to abolish level two apprenticeships were rejected by Unionlearn at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers...

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Report calls for apprenticeships to be ‘re-made’ to meet new outcomes

Apprenticeships should be “re-made” to give learners expertise, resourcefulness, craftsmanship, business-like attitudes and wider skills for growth, according to...

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Colleges ‘not meeting employer needs’ on digital skills, Lords warn

Further education colleges are failing to meet employer needs when it comes to digital skills, an influential group of...

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Niace sets out demands for FE in budget submission

The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has demanded that the next budget tackle the “crisis” facing adult skills...

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Ed Miliband to pledge ‘apprenticeship guarantee’ to deliver 80,000 extra annual starts by 2020

An “apprenticeship guarantee” will create 80,000 more starts a year by 2020 if Labour forms a government in May,...

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College is prepared to take on learners after academy trust drops plans for school sixth form

The principal of an FE college is planning to take-on students left stranded after an academy trust dropped plans...

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