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Team UK selected for WorldSkills 2019 in Kazan

More than 30 of the country’s best and brightest young skilled people have been chosen to represent the UK...

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T-level transition offer tender slammed for exclusivity and secrecy

The Department for Education has been accused of “locking out” small firms in a highly restrictive and secretive T-level...

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Government to ‘strengthen’ end-point assessment register to exclude ‘rogues’

The government is “strengthening” the approvals process for its register of end-point assessment organisations following an FE Week exposé...

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Treasury, not DfE, holding up apprenticeship fee reduction

  The Department for Education is waiting for the Treasury to let them announce a start date for when...

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ESFA publishes AEB funding rules and extends free courses to workers earning just over £16,000

Adults earning less than the national living wage and who live outside of Mayoral combined authorities with devolution deals...

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NAO second report into levy reforms a ‘shame’, says apprenticeships minister

Today’s National Audit Office report into apprenticeships is a “shame” because it only reflects on the past and doesn’t...

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Apprenticeship quango boss rejects NAO concern that ‘most valued’ standards are not prioritised

National Audit Office criticism of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education standards approvals process has been rejected by...

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ESFA calls for funding rules feedback to make them ‘clearer’

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has asked employers and providers for feedback on the way it provides apprenticeship...

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ESFA in NAO firing line as Ofsted left to expose lack of off-the-job training

On the same day the National Audit Office revealed the government has “limited assurance” the 20 per cent off-the-job-training...

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Billy Camden