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New borrowing rules posing cashflow problems for colleges

Rules imposed last year amount to a ‘perfect storm’, FE leaders warn

News, Colleges, Reclassification

Rotheram: the ‘apprentice’ mayor

Liverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram is donning a hi-vis vest, trowel in hand, and reminiscing to local college students about the hard graft of his first job as a bricklayer and how he’d be incapable of it today. His attempts at bricklaying in front of young learners (and cameras) at the City of […]

News, Profiles, Apprenticeships, Long read

From rebellious pupil to champion of specialist colleges

Clare Howard, chief executive of Natspec, the body representing specialist colleges, is determined to get their voices heard. But she has been having a tough time of it lately. Further education may feel overlooked by the DfE when compared with schools, but specialist colleges sometimes feel like the ultimate Cinderella service of the education world. […]

Profiles, Long read, RAAC, specialist colleges

Nearly 1 in 6 clinical training places to be offered as apprenticeships by 2028

NHS workforce plan commits to triple the number of apprentice nurses and boost medical degree apprenticeships

News, Apprenticeships

DfE opens applications for colleges capital loans

Loans are available for college capital projects originally planning private sector borrowing prior to reclassification

News, Colleges

The cost-of-living crisis is becoming a cost-of-learning crisis

Learners are increasingly
forced to make horrible
choices between cash or the
classroom, says Josh Spears

Opinion, Cost of living

We must start playing hardball to meet our staffing challenges

The sector can’t keep selling itself cheap if it wants to fill its staffing vacancies with high-quality talent and overcome its underdog status, says Ian Pryce

Opinion, recruitment

Online learning: Placing efficiency and quality at the AI revolution’s heart

Mark Dawe scopes out the dawning landscape of a sector revolutionised by online and blended learning and sets out how to begin exploring it – with a little help

Opinion, Online learning

Apprenticeships could make medicine careers more accessible and cheaper – but the stakes are high if it goes wrong

Expanding degree apprenticeships is a hot political priority, with an ambition for them to widen access to a variety of top professions. With huge investment going in to create apprentice doctors, Jessica Hill finds out if the model will really work

Feature, News, Apprenticeships, Long read