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Could another nosedive in apprentice numbers be around the corner?

Government figures this month indicated advanced apprenticeship starts had plummeted since the introduction of FE loans and with more...

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Nick Linford
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Sixth form college strikes put back a month

National sixth form college strikes planned for next week have been put back a month. Members of the National...

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Skills Funding Agency chief defends shock qualifications cull

Skills Funding Agency chief executive Barbara Spicer has spoken out to defend a shock public funding cut for adult...

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Nick Linford

The Education and Training Foundation ~ an introduction

Download your free copy of the FE Week 16-page introduction to the Education and Training Foundation. Click here to download (5 mb)...

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Concerns over nuclear college plans

Plans for a new college to train nuclear power plant workers have sparked concerns among colleges who had been...

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Shock funding cut for 1,500 adult quals

As many as 1,500 qualifications face the public funding axe as the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) looks to introduce...

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Software problems ‘distorting’ key FE and skills statistics

Key information designed to “hold the government to account over delivery of policy” has been corrupted by ongoing problems...

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Former provider staff due in court on host of fraud charges

More than a dozen former employees of welfare to work provider A4e are due to appear in court charged...

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Nick Linford
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Ex-Cabinet Secretaries wade in on 18-year-old funding cut debate

Two former education and skills secretaries joined the charge against a controversial funding cut for 18-year-old learners as Skills...

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Nick Linford