Training Providers

Court date set for Learning Curve vs DfE procurement trial

The four day trial will determine if DfE broke procurement rules by refusing Learning Curve Group an adult education...

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Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: 74 qualifications survive 2025 level 3 course cull

Approved 'alternative' qualifications can be funded alongside A-levels and T Levels

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Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

EPA on trial: DfE to test alternative apprenticeship assessments

Several options are on the table to speed up apprenticeship assessments...but at what cost?

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Shane Chowen
T Levels

First T Level students: Where are they now?

Controversial industry placements were the most popular element of T Levels for the first cohort that completed them

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Shane Chowen
Colleges

Weston College finally appoints permanent principal

Bedford College Group deputy CEO Pat Jones will lead Weston College from July

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Shane Chowen
T Levels

DfE launch T Level reviews amid ‘worrying’ drop-out rates

New figures confirm a third of 2021 T Level entrants dropped the course

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Shane Chowen
Ofsted

North Yorkshire college downgraded following leadership ‘turbulence’

Craven College was led amost entirely by a team of interim senior managers

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Shane Chowen
Higher education

Delayed: Lifelong learning entitlement pushed back to 2026

LLE introduction pushed back to test new systems for smaller cohort of learners

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Shane Chowen
Students

New FE VP to ‘rebuild trust’ in NUS

Students have elected Qasim Hussain as the next NUS vice president (further education)

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Shane Chowen