News

Education select committee to investigate subcontracting

The Commons education select committee will investigate subcontracting, and Learndirect is expected to feature prominently. The committee, now chaired...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Government funding ‘high level’ T-level training for college staff

The Department for Education is forking out £95,000 to run “high-level message” sessions to train FE staff about T-levels. It...

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Nick Linford
News

Minister ‘misled’ MPs over apprenticeships at Learndirect

MPs were “misled” in Parliament by the skills minister Anne Milton today, after she claimed apprenticeships are “no longer...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Non-levy tender: It will take over 8 hours just to read the current ‘clarifications’

The ESFA’s latest attempt at a non-levy apprenticeships tender now has over 100,000 words of ‘final’ clarifications. FE Week’s...

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Nick Linford
News

ESFA £650m non-levy tender has ‘descended into farce’

The troubled second attempt at an ESFA non-levy apprenticeship funding tender descended into chaos last night as a series...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

BREAKING: Non-levy apprenticeship funding tender deadline extended

The non-levy apprenticeship funding tender timetable has been “amended” by the Department for Education, and the deadline for submissions...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

EXCLUSIVE: DfE launches £100k tender to independently review complaints against Ofsted

The Department for Education has this week started the hunt for an organisation to review complaints made against Ofsted,...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Learndirect special treatment update: will it be less than £1m or over £30m to ‘wind-down’ AEB?

Learndirect’s Adult Education Budget “wind-down” allocation value to July 2018 hangs in the balance, after they failed to tender...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

BREAKING: official figures show huge increase in apprenticeship starts in month before reforms kicked-in

Apprenticeship start rocketed in the months before May when mandatory cash contributions from employers kicked in, the latest Department for...

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Nick Linford