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Government search site is flooded with hundreds of ‘locations’ for the same providers

Training providers are flooding the government’s Find Apprenticeship Training website with hundreds of locations they have no permanent presence...

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Was government support of Learndirect sale legal?

> MPs demand answers over ESFA approving sale of Learndirect Apprenticeships in 2016 > PAC inquiry to quiz Ofsted...

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Non-levy tender appeals are lucky for some

Multiple providers have successfully overturned the government’s decisions not to award them contracts in the controversial non-levy tender –...

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Grade two provider wins non-levy tender appeal

A provider has successfully overturned the government’s decision not to award it a contract in the recent controversial non-levy...

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Institute for Apprenticeships to lose its deputy chief

The Institute for Apprenticeships is losing a vital member of staff, one who was “instrumental” in setting up the...

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Lifeline for Somerset provider devastated by AEB tender

A community learning provider in Somerset that found itself at the sharp end of the adult education budget debacle...

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Billy Camden
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First college merger plan for 2018 launched in the south-east

Two large colleges in the south-east, which teach a combined total of nearly 30,000 FE students every year, have...

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Who got what in Queen’s New Year honours for FE?

The bosses of two colleges located just 10 miles apart have been awarded CBEs in the Queen’s new year’s...

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Nick Boles: Behind the scenes on the birth of the apprenticeship levy

The architect of the apprenticeship levy gives his own account of how this landmark policy was brought to fruition,...

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