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Strikes on the cards at 11 colleges

University and College Union members at 11 colleges across England are voting on industrial action from today. Ten of...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Number 10 seeks education and skills deputy director for new delivery unit

Number 10 is seeking a “deputy director for education, jobs and skills” to work in a new unit set...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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FAB warns of ‘conflict of interest’ arising from Skills Bill legislation

Plans to hand the government’s apprenticeships quango new powers over technical qualifications are a “retrograde step” and introduce a...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Uproar as DfE researchers to ban jobless bootcamp applicants…at random

Training providers have been left livid and refusing to sign contracts after the Department for Education revealed their researchers...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Applications open for new £18m higher technical qualifications expansion fund

Colleges and universities are being invited to bid for a slice of a new £18 million fund to expand...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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20,000 students ‘shocked’ as UCAS glitch rejects university offers

Tens of thousands of students faced more stress this morning as a glitch in UCAS’s system automatically rejected their...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofsted

Colleges must share sexual abuse records for future Ofsted inspections

Colleges will have to share their records and analysis of sexual abuse when Ofsted comes knocking in the future....

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Teacher-assessed qualifications to be excluded from achievement rates – again

Provider-level qualification achievement rates (QARs) will include only some courses in 2020/21, the Education and Skills Funding Agency has...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Government should fund apprentice wages for SMEs, says Halfon

The government should pay apprentice wages and fund their full cost of training “for at least a year” if...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden