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Almost 350 Carillon apprentices to lose wage support

Nearly 350 former Carillion apprentices will have their wage support cut off next month after being made redundant. The...

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Over 300 apprenticeship standards celebrated yet some attracting zero employers – FE Week investigates

Earlier this month the Institute for Apprenticeships bragged about approving standards at a faster rate than ever before after...

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Ofsted watch: ‘Unsafe’ college makes rapid safety improvements

A specialist land-based college branded “unsafe” in a shocking grade four report in April has made swift improvements to...

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DfE gives IoT bid special treatment to grade 3 NCG

The government appears to have broken its own rules in its Institutes of Technology competition, by putting NCG through...

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Ofqual to audit EPAOs amid ‘capacity and capability’ concerns

Ofqual will soon begin auditing apprenticeship end-point assessment organisations to find out how they are mitigating risks around the...

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Colleges supported with £760,000 to engage inactive students in sport

Over three quarters of a million pounds will be invested in colleges over the next two years to engage...

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European Social Fund protected until end of 2020, Chancellor confirms

Training providers will have their European Social Fund cash protected until the end of 2020, even if a “no-deal”...

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Billy Camden
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9 things we learned from the DfE’s annual report and accounts 2017-18

The Department for Education has this morning published its annual report, revealing payoffs, various bonuses and millions in unrecoverable...

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Ofsted watch: Best and worst of FE on show

An independent specialist college showed the best of FE this week as it maintained its ‘outstanding’ rating, but the...

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