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Future of Fisss uncertain as BIS plans new system for apprenticeship certificates

The future of the Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards (Fisss) was today uncertain with the government looking...

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Progress continues at previously-troubled Barnfield College with Ofsted praise after final monitoring visit

Ofsted has identified progress across all areas looked at in a third monitoring visit of previously-troubled Barnfield College. Inspectors were at...

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Foundation Degree awarding powers granted to Hull College Group as government moratorium lifted

Hull College Group has become the fifth college in England to be granted Foundation Degree Awarding Powers (DAPs), after...

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Alix Robertson
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Targets for different apprenticeship levels in race to 3m starts dismissed by Treasury and BIS

Government representatives today dismissed the suggestion of targets for different apprenticeship levels in the race for 3m new starts by...

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UTCs ‘do work colleges have done for years’ hears House of Lords committee

University Technical Colleges (UTCs) have been criticised in front of a Lords committee for stepping in where “colleges could...

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DfE to go public with subcontracted student numbers for first time

The Department for Education (DfE) will publish information on subcontracted student numbers for the first time at the end...

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LGA calls for exemption from apprenticeship levy for local councils

Local authorities should be excluded from the large employers’ apprenticeship levy, according to proposals put forward by the Local...

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Negotiations over AoC pay freeze fail as UCU sticks to strike threat

The threat of strike action was today hanging over the FE sector as talks between the Association of Colleges...

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Alix Robertson
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College sector leaders to give Lords evidence on employment opportunities for young people

College sector leaders will add their voices to an inquiry by the House of Lords Select Committee on Social...

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Alix Robertson