First approved digital functional skills awarding body revealed New courses set to be launched in August 2023
£2m set aside for lifelong loan awareness campaign Flagship policy will provide individuals with the equivalent of four years of post-18 education to use over their lifetime
Degree-level apprenticeship spending hit half a billion last year Costly courses swallowed a fifth of DfE’s budget in 21/22
Duplication error sees large apprenticeship firm missing from QARs Several other big providers included in official performance tables experienced similar problems
Emergency funding review set to pass planned end date – again Latest ‘shocking’ delay blamed on ‘excessive bureaucracy and indecision’
Another Saudi college venture ends But questions hang over whether millions in tax will need to be repaid
Experts and minister hail ‘flying start’ as recruitment stats for IoTs revealed ‘This could prove very attractive in many localities’
30 days of strikes at London college as toxic battle rages ‘Extremely damaging’ action hits students during exam season
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