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Mayors want more courses included under lifetime skills guarantee

Regional mayors are preparing to plead for courses to be added to the government’s lifetime skills guarantee offer after...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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New data shows improved picture for apprenticeship starts amid pandemic

Apprenticeship starts appear to be recovering after new data showed a less dramatic percentage drop amid the pandemic. Figures...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Revealed: How employers claim the £1,000 traineeship incentive

Employers can claim the government’s promised £1,000 for a completed traineeship work placement using an online form from today....

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Public Accounts Committee criticises expensive and ineffective college oversight

The government’s approach to college intervention takes too long, costs too much and is not effective in making them...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Reopening colleges and providers: Announcements coming ‘in next few days’

The government will make announcements on reopening education providers “in the next few days”, the schools minister has said....

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Departing Hull College chair lashes out at ‘failure’ of government oversight

Daf Williams, just hours after a shock resignation from the position of chair to the board of Hull College...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Chair of Hull College Group resigns amid spending concerns and FE Commissioner visit

The chair of the troubled Hull College Group has resigned. Daf Williams (pictured) has left the post just hours...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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College’s £240k rugby stadium naming deal investigated

The new interim chief executive at Hull College Group has launched an investigation after FE Week revealed the organisation...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

White paper Q&A with skills minister: ‘We have got an awful lot to do and an awful lot to prove’

The lack of a long-term funding settlement for FE did not hamper the Department for Education’s white paper in...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden