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AoC stands firm over unqualified lecturers

The Association of Colleges (AoC) maintained its support for allowing member colleges to recruit unqualified lecturers, despite some college...

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Elmfield staff ‘still in dark’ on future as administration looms

Hundreds of Elmfield Training staff could still be in the dark about their futures more than a week after...

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Agency strips provider of £2.5m contract

A Lancashire-based training provider has been stripped of its £2.5m Skills Funding Agency contract following a damning Ofsted grading...

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SFA notice at City Coventry College remains despite ‘progress’

The Skills Funding Agency will not remove City College Coventry’s Notice of Concern, despite Ofsted ruling it had made...

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Rejection for family learning plan proposal

The Department for Education (DfE) has rejected calls by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) for a...

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Apprenticeships make up just half a per cent of FE loan applications

Figures released this morning show just 239 loans for apprenticeships have been applied for  since the scheme began — 162 in September. The figures...

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Funding software delay ‘getting serious,’ 157 group tells SFA

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has been hit with further criticism over “serious difficulties” faced by colleges because of...

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Government publishes its ‘radical and far-reaching’ apprenticeship plan

The government has this morning confirmed in a newly-published implementation plan that it would put apprenticeship design in England in the hands...

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Foundation appoints permanent chief executive

A policy director at the Department for Education (DfE) will become the Education and Training Foundation’s (ETF) first permanent...

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