Colleges

DfE’s £20m spike cash helps buy 9,000 student places

With student numbers climbing sharply, colleges in northern England are using emergency cash to buy new buildings and convert...

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Qualifications, Skills reform

Officials hesitate over V Level licence model

DfE is also seeking views on whether the new qualification should be ‘small’ or ‘medium’ sized

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Josh Mellor
Colleges

FE providers in scope for £925 international student levy

The levy will fund targeted maintenance grants for disadvantaged students

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Josh Mellor
Prison education

England’s three young offender institutions fail 15-hour education requirement

MPs have say the lack of access to education in youth custody is 'deplorable'

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Josh Mellor
Colleges

South Devon job cuts turned college finances to ‘small surplus’

The college's reserves have been 'depleted' to pay for capital costs due to low income in recent years

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Josh Mellor
News

DWP promises careers service merger plan ‘by April’

The DWP has responded to calls for clarity over a merger of careers advice with jobcentres

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Josh Mellor
Ofsted

IoTs quit after spotlight shifts to new TECs

Ministers recently reversed plans to wind down the institutes altogether, it is understood

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Josh Mellor
Colleges

Private ’targeted support’ to replace public college intervention in ‘most cases’

The DfE hopes new intervention teams will improve outcomes for 70,000 students

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Josh Mellor
ESOL

Reform UK mayor’s ESOL cuts not catching on – yet

Greater Lincolnshire's mayor wants to fund literacy and numeracy instead of English language lessons

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Josh Mellor