News

Degree-level apprenticeship spending hit half a billion last year

Costly courses swallowed a fifth of DfE's budget in 21/22

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Duplication error sees large apprenticeship firm missing from QARs

Several other big providers included in official performance tables experienced similar problems

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Emergency funding review set to pass planned end date – again

Latest 'shocking' delay blamed on 'excessive bureaucracy and indecision'

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, International

Another Saudi college venture ends

But questions hang over whether millions in tax will need to be repaid

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Institutes of Technology, IoTs, Skills reform

Experts and minister hail ‘flying start’ as recruitment stats for IoTs revealed

‘This could prove very attractive in many localities’

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Billy Camden
News

30 days of strikes at London college as toxic battle rages

'Extremely damaging' action hits students during exam season

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Training Providers

The Marples lawsuit: DfE rebuts ‘fundamentally flawed’ claim

DfE has denied that officials acted negligently, with malice, or in bad faith in refusing 3aaa sale in 2016

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Former national college to officially close down

NCATI, formerly the National College for High Speed Rail, will cease to exist by July 31, 2023

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Students ‘disempowered’ as ministers dig in over BTEC defunding

Letter from skills minister to college chiefs confirms no delay of defunding timeline

Billy Camden
Billy Camden