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Boris reveals college face-to-face plans must be delayed until 15 June at earliest

The prime minister has unexpectedly announced a two week delay to when colleges can begin their wider reopening of...

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Billy Camden
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Colleges in administration enter second year with more delays

The transfer to new ownership for the first colleges to be placed by the government into insolvency has been...

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Billy Camden
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ESFA rejects one-third of all AEB and non-levy supplier relief applications

A third of training providers that bid for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s apprenticeship and adult education Covid-19...

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Billy Camden
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Unions increase opposition to college reopening by warning leaders over Covid-19 ‘legal liability’

Unions have fired off a Covid-19 “liability” warning shot to school and college leaders – quoting the health and...

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Billy Camden
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ESFA launches Covid-19 supplier relief for European Social Fund providers

The government has today launched a Covid-19 supplier relief scheme for training providers with European Social Fund (ESF) contracts....

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Billy Camden
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Colleges will need to create student ‘bubbles’ to reduce Covid risk but ‘real challenge’, says AoC

The Association of Colleges has warned that reducing interaction and mixing in colleges is “going to be a real...

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Billy Camden
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Unfair: Sutton Trust finds young disadvantaged ‘losing out’ on degree apprenticeships

Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are “losing out” on degree level apprenticeships as they soar in popularity without “fair...

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Billy Camden
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Ofsted triggers government intervention at specialist college

A new college for students with special educational needs and disabilities has been suspended from recruiting learners after receiving...

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Billy Camden
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Take the ‘opportunity’ to reopen from June, says skills minister

Colleges that refuse to begin face-to-face teaching with students before the next academic year will “lose an opportunity to...

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Billy Camden