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ESFA back-tracks after threat to challenge low apprenticeship achievement rates

Two weeks after the Education and Skills Funding Agency announced they would intervene at apprenticeship providers that failed to...

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Majority of eligible providers chose not to apply for ESFA Covid-19 supplier relief

Only around a quarter of eligible training providers applied for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s Covid-19 supplier relief...

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Outstanding!: College group given top Ofsted marks across the board

Chichester College Group has become the second general further education college to be rated ‘outstanding’ under Ofsted’s new inspection...

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DfE clarifies which college students ‘should’ receive face to face delivery from 1 June

First year students on all two-year 16 to 19 vocational study programmes, such as BTECs, should start returning to...

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ESFA seeks legal advice in face of unpublished Ofsted reports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