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Government ‘must act now’ to replace European funding, new report urges

The government must “urgently” design a successor programme to the European Social Fund to avoid a “disastrous” post-Brexit funding...

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Monthly update: apprenticeship starts down 23 per cent in December

UPDATED: To ensure we’re comparing like with like, the table has been updated to include provisional figures from August...

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14 colleges receive cash from the strategic improvement fund

Fourteen general FE and sixth-form colleges have received grants through a fund designed to support failing colleges to improve...

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Jude Burke
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Ofsted watch: Two providers pull up from ‘inadequate’

Two providers managed to pull themselves up from grade four this week – one to ‘good’ and the other...

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Shakira Martin re-elected as NUS president

FE champion Shakira Martin (pictured above) has survived a row over allegations of bullying to be re-elected as president...

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Federation of Awarding Bodies appoints Tom Bewick as new chief executive

The Federation of Awarding Bodies has announced skills and enterprise policy expert Tom Bewick as its new chief executive...

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Guildford College to join Activate Learning

A cash-strapped college that was forced to seek a merger after it became only the second institution to return...

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Jude Burke
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Three senior Team Wearside staff jailed for £460,000 fraud

An ex-chief executive of a training provider and two of her former colleagues have been sentenced to a total...

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Second wave of college strikes over pay begins today

The second wave of strike action by University and College Union members has begun, in an ongoing dispute over...

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Jude Burke