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Exclusive interview with BIS committee’s chair

With the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee report highlighting a number of apprenticeship issues, FE Week deputy editor...

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Teachers unskilled to provide careers advice

The fifth annual Colleges Week has kicked off with the publication of a report that shows schoolteachers and parents...

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Where have all the students gone?

More than a million students could not be traced by researchers wanting to find out what happened to them...

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Group chair appointed to steer FE Guild

An independent chair has been appointed as proposals to create an FE Guild take shape. David Hughes, chief executive...

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The X Factor star put through his paces

Singer Danyl Johnson (left) was put through his paces by students when he recorded a live BBC broadcast at...

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Skills Funding Agency ‘assured’ over Elmfield Training payments to Morrisons

A system of payments from the provider behind the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programme to the firm whose staff it...

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Urgent reform to apprenticeships needed, says BIS Committee

An 11-month government inquiry into apprenticeships has recommended a host of changes, including “closer scrutiny, careful monitoring or even...

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Dual success for Plymouth carpenters

Two carpenters at Devon college have won a national crafts competition. City College Plymouth students Jack Weekes, 19, and...

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Pop star joins mental wellbeing week

Television and pop star Kerry Katona spoke to students at a Chester college about her experiences battling mental illness....

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