News

EFA pulls Chelmer Training contract after fall from outstanding to inadequate — but questions remain for Ofsted

A provider that plummeted straight from Ofsted outstanding nearly a decade ago to inadequate escaped a visit from inspectors...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Reed recruitment agency stops re-selling My Distance Learning College courses amid row over 32,000 paying-learner certificates

A major recruitment agency has stopped re-selling courses run by troubled Rotherham-based provider My Distance Learning College (MDLC) amid...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

ETF action over conflict of interest fears after director’s firm wins contract

The Education and Training Foundation has acted over conflict of interest concerns surrounding interim director Pauline Odulinski after a...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

New ad campaign tells youngsters to ‘get in’ to apprenticeships and ‘go far’

The government and top employers have today launched a ‘Get In, Go Far’  TV advertising campaign for apprenticeships as...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Financial dispute leaves ‘32,000’ paying students at My Distance Learning College in dark over certificates

A Rotherham-based provider has warned that 32,000 paying learners might not get their certificates after a number of awarding...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Free school’s A-levels claims ‘misleading and could be used against less voguish sixth form colleges’

The head teacher of the selective free school London Academy of Excellence, which only accepts learners that achieve at...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Colleges asked to step in after private firm reveals plans to walk away from £17m contract

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) is looking for a general FE college to step in after a major private...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Cash-strapped college appointed principal without competition to avoid ‘expensive recruitment process’

The FE Commissioner visited Stratford-Upon Avon College after its financial health was rated as inadequate by the Skills Funding Agency....

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Hunt restates technical institutes plan but questions remain that they would ‘address real issues affecting FE’

Labour’s tech bacc plans and proposals for Institutes of Technical Education were restated in a speech today by Shadow...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford