Author: Billy Camden

A recently merged college with historical cash problems has received a financial health notice to improve after the government assessed its monetary situation as “inadequate”. The Education and Skills Funding Agency hit North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College with the notice today following a “review of the financial plan” it submitted to the agency in […]

Crisis-hit Aspire Achieve Advance spent over £1.6 million of its mostly government-funded income on professional sports sponsorship deals. One of the deals, worth half a million pounds with Derbyshire Cricket Club, remains in play despite the launch of a police probe into the apprenticeship giant. The company, better known as 3aaa, went into administration yesterday […]

The co-founder of Aspire Achieve Advance has resigned from his position as chair of an academy trust, after the government referred his giant training provider to the police. FE Week revealed last night that Peter Marples had the backing of the Spencer Academies Trust, even though 3aaa was put into administration after the Education and […]

Ofsted is rating adult education in their monitoring visits of new apprenticeship providers – but the government doesn’t know if they’ll ban a provider if they’re making ‘insufficient progress’ in that theme alone. In August the Education and Skills Funding Agency confirmed that any poor-performing provider with the rating in at least one of the […]

Crisis-hit Aspire Achieve Advance has gone into administration – putting 500 jobs and the future of 4,500 apprentices at risk, FE Week can reveal. The company, better known as 3aaa and one of the biggest apprenticeship providers in the country, has come to the end of its sale process and multiple bids were made. However, […]

The Department for Education has referred Aspire Achieve Advance to the police following its investigation into the crisis-hit provider. The company, known as 3aaa, was put into administration today following a second government investigation regarding claims about inflated achievement rates. This newspaper can now reveal that the DfE has referred their findings to the police […]

An expanding academy trust is backing its chair despite the government referring his giant private training provider to the police following a second investigation. Peter Marples (pictured), a multi-millionaire businessman who co-founded 3aaa in 2008, joined the Spencer Academies Trust in December 2015 as a trustee and became its chair in the 2016/17 academic year. […]

The boss of the largest college group in the country has quit, FE Week can reveal. Joe Docherty (pictured) has left NCG with immediate effect. He becomes the third high-profile and highly paid college boss to resign in recent weeks. His decision follows a turbulent year for the college group which has been rated poorly […]

The buyer of apprenticeship giant Aspire Achieve Advance will have to pay £500,000 in “deal fees” by the end of 2018. FE Week revealed last week that the crisis-hit training provider, commonly known as 3aaa, has put itself up for sale in the midst of a government investigation into the company. A sales document, seen […]