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Payout given to retiring principal must be paid back

A university has been told to repay £119,000 by its funding body after an investigation found a payout to...

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Gillian Keegan appointed apprenticeships and skills minister

Gillian Keegan has been named as the new apprenticeships and skills minister. She joined the Department for Education as...

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Renewed calls for skills tax credits as budget looms

With the budget less than a month away, and the prime minister confirming the apprenticeship levy needs reform, there...

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Billy Camden
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Crisis hit HS2 college hires lawyers to gag Ofsted

The crisis hit National College for HS2 has hired a team of lawyers to stop Ofsted publishing a highly...

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Billy Camden
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Could Wolf persuade the PM to revive night schools?

Part-time evening courses were once a route that allowed tens of thousands of adults to retrain. But government funding...

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Billy Camden
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Government slashes £11m from £20m adult traineeship budget

The Department for Education is to cut the budget for adult traineeships by more than half from August 2020....

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Billy Camden
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Lord Agnew to leave the DfE

Lord Agnew is to leave the Department for Education, FE Week’s sister paper FE Week understands. The junior academies...

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Billy Camden
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Provider advertises £30k reward in return for their ‘achieved learners’

A training provider is offering a reward of just under £30,000 for simply adding their data on achieved learners...

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Inspectorate apologises to college principal after reversing grade four

Ofsted has apologised and overturned a provisional ‘inadequate’ judgement after a college complained when inspectors alleged that student safety...

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