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Five colleges handed DfE warnings over finances

Five struggling colleges have been hit with a notice to improve by the government this morning, after they were...

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DfE urged to launch independent review into Careers and Enterprise Company

The government has been urged to commission an independent review into whether the Careers and Enterprise Company is doing...

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DfE finally confirms thousands of apprentices are going unregulated – but is now trying to find a solution

The government has confirmed there are thousands of apprentices with no organisation responsible for checking the quality of their...

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Provider to challenge inspection after Ofsted found learners ‘unaware’ they took out an FE loan

A provider has been slammed with a grade four after Ofsted found its 500 learners received “no teaching” and...

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‘Falling through the cracks’: thousands of apprenticeships going unregulated

The government has been left red-faced after FE Week found thousands of apprentices with no organisation responsible for checking...

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College refuses to explain spending millions on mysterious subcontractor

A college has refused to explain why it has given £16.5 million over the last three years to a...

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NCG resolves bitter pay dispute with its London colleges

A deal has been struck between the country’s largest college group and union members at its two London colleges...

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ESFA WON’T ban new apprenticeship providers with poor AEB provision found in monitoring visits

The government will not ban new apprenticeship providers from recruiting adult learners if they’re making ‘insufficient progress’ in that...

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DfE plans National Colleges evaluation to avoid repeating mistakes with Institutes of Technology

The government is going to evaluate its troubled National Colleges policy to identify what has gone wrong with the...

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