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WorldSkills UK LIVE cancelled again – but national skills competitions return

The country’s biggest skills and careers event has been cancelled for a second year – but national skills competitions...

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Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Call for new ‘baccalaureate’ to replace A-levels, BTECs, T-Levels and apprenticeships

A three-year ‘baccalaureate’ should be introduced to replace A-levels, BTECs, T-Levels and apprenticeships, a think tank has said. A...

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Billy Camden
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Colleges take adult education clawback battle to Downing Street

Colleges have called on the prime minister to intervene in the government’s “devastating” adult education clawback plans that risk...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Prison education: Three days of strikes announced

Education staff at 49 prisons across England will go on three days of strike action in the coming weeks...

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Billy Camden
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‘Staggering’ number of college students ‘between one and four months behind’, AoC survey warns

A “staggering” three quarters of 16 to 18-year-old college students are performing below normal expectations and are between one...

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Billy Camden
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Colleges will need to do their own funding audits – ESFA rules

The government body responsible for funding assurance appears to have lost confidence in itself. The Education and Skills Funding...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Swithenbank’s payoff revealed as auditors confirm financial regulations breached

The former chief executive of Hull College Group received £219,000 last year, despite only being in post for 67...

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Billy Camden
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Tripling traineeships: no growth yet, but new providers remain upbeat

The government has failed to boost radically the number of traineeships in the first half of the year –...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Cash-strapped college announces merger partner

A struggling college has announced plans to merge with one of the biggest college groups in the country next...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden