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Free recording: Latest FE policy response to Covid-19 outbreak

The third webcast in FE Week’s series – further education sector’s response and requirements to the coronavirus pandemic –...

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DfE announces first year sixth form students could be returning to college as soon as 1 June

Colleges have been asked to begin face to face teaching with students currently in their first year of sixth...

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Frameworks set for stay of execution

The government is considering a U-turn on its planned date to switch off old-style apprenticeship frameworks as providers raise...

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Billy Camden
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Adult education charity rescued by council

A long-running adult education charity has been saved from going under after a local council agreed to a £100,000...

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Billy Camden
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ESFA seeks legal advice in face of unpublished Ofsted reports

The Education and Skills Funding Agency is taking legal advice on whether it can intervene at new providers before...

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Billy Camden
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DfE relaxes traineeship rules

The Department for Education has relaxed its requirement for students on traineeship programmes to record 100 hours of work...

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Billy Camden
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Low Pay Commission calls on government to better protect apprentices

The government has been urged to take action against recurrent “very high levels” of illegally low apprentice wages. The...

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Billy Camden
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ESFA delays full rollout of digital apprenticeship system to April 2021

The full transition onto the digital apprenticeship system has been delayed by four months, the Education and Skills Funding...

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Back to the drawing board for apprenticeship funding rate reform

The government’s apprenticeships quango has announced it will launch a second funding rate consultation – days before the deadline...

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Billy Camden