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Highbury College loses FOI battle to keep the principal’s expenses a secret

The UK’s data watchdog has sided with FE Week in our long-running freedom of information battle with Highbury College to obtain expense claims made on the principal’s corporate card. A request for this information spanning the past five academic years was put in 10 months ago, but the college refused to comply and cited section […]

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A ‘snowflake’ with ‘vacuous’ thoughts: former sector leader hits back at policy adviser to Hinds

A former sector leader has hit back at an ex-special adviser to education secretary Damian Hinds after the latter said colleges are “too complex to run”. David Harbourne, a former chief executive of The Edge Foundation and ex-senior official at the old Skills Funding Agency, accused Jon Yates of being a “snowflake who can’t stand […]

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Three in four providers cannot meet SME apprentice demand thanks to levy drought

Three quarters of training providers cannot meet the demands by small and medium sized employers for training apprentices, because the apprenticeship levy is running out of cash. That’s according to a new Association of Employment and Learning Providers survey, which also revealed a quarter of providers have had to turn away a prospective new SME […]

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ESFA move to short notice funding audits in dodgy data crackdown

Colleges and training providers will now be given as little as two weeks notice of a financial assurance audit and only three days to present sample files, the ESFA has warned. A letter from the agency, titled ‘ESFA Funding Assurance’ visits, says it plans to give providers as little as two weeks’ notice of an […]

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Hard to believe? Ofsted found apprentices and their employers did not know they were on the programme

A private provider has been slammed by Ofsted after it found learners and their employers unaware they were taking part in an apprenticeship programme. The report from an early monitoring visit of Prospect Training (Yorkshire), which has 112 apprentices, found: “Too many apprentices are not aware that they are on an apprenticeship, and often their […]

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Rollout of national retraining scheme gets underway

The government has finally revealed details of the first phase of the national retraining scheme, with the launch of a new digital service that will act as a course and job directory. Initially heavily restricted to only include people from the Liverpool City Region, adults will be invited to test the system if they are […]

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Let’s hope the new PM puts lifelong learning at the top of his to-do list

Participation levels in lifelong learning are tumbling, says Ewart Keep. Action is needed – and now The return of lifelong learning as a policy issue has recently been building: reviews have been published and recommendations made to tackle the challenges facing the UK workforce. We now need action. Why? First, automation and digital technologies are […]

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End of term report: people are waking up to the need to rebalance FE and HE

The new prime minister will have to rise to the skills and productivity challenge, and make sure that everyone, no matter where they come from, can get a chance to have a great job, says skills minister Anne Milton With the end of term in mind, and alongside all the changes that are going on […]

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Capital ideas: new CEO on his plans to rejuvenate finances of London mega-college

A huge 5 per cent staff pay rise costing over £2 million per year was a big win for the University and College Union in November, and for the time being, this settlement put an end to troublesome disputes at Capital City Colleges Group. But a closer look by FE Week has found unplanned multi-million-pound […]

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