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Open University extends free functional skills offer to level 2

A scheme by The Open University to provide free online functional skills courses has been extended to level 2. Pilots offering the English and maths programmes up to level 1 got under way in February and have been accessed by 12,000 people already, according to the university. Funded by the Department for Education’s flexible learning […]

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College that received £21.9m bailout to cut 39 jobs

Nearly 40 staff are expected to lose their jobs as part of a restructure at a college that received a government bailout of over £20 million last year. Stoke-on-Trent College is currently consulting on the plans that will not affect frontline teaching roles, but will see up to 103 staff in business support roles having […]

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Justice secretary asked to intervene in substantial prison education job losses

The University and College Union has written to the justice secretary urging him to intervene over a training provider’s plans to cut more than 100 jobs. The union said in a letter addressed to David Gauke that Novus, a prison education provider part of the LTE Group, which also runs The Manchester College, has placed […]

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Training firm with 2,000 learners goes bust

A training provider with over 2,000 learners has gone into administration, with the loss of 69 jobs. James Lumb and Howard Smith from KPMG were appointed as administrators to Inspire 2 Independence (i2i) on April 29. Lumb, a director at KPMG, said the provider, which offered employability and apprenticeship programmes through its 13 sites across […]

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Increase 16-19 funding by ‘significant amount’, Social Mobility Commission urges

The government should raise the funding rate for 16 to 19-year-olds by a “significant amount” in the upcoming spending review, the Social Mobility Commission has said, piling yet more pressure on the Treasury. The commission’s 2018-19 State of the Nation report says funding for the age group has “fallen 12 per cent since 2011-2012 and […]

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‘Insufficient’ Ofsted monitoring report published for NCG’s private provider

An independent provider that is part of the country’s largest college group has had its first Ofsted monitoring report published since receiving a grade three last year, and it returned stinging criticism. It follows an FE Week report from last month that warned the watchdog had found no signs of improvement at the provider, which […]

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UCU calls on FE Commissioner to consider de-merging London colleges from NCG

Union officials at two London colleges have written to the FE Commissioner requesting that he urgently investigates whether they should de-merge from the country’s largest college group. Members of the University and College Union at Lewisham and Southwark colleges have been contesting their pay and conditions for years but claim matters have deteriorated even further […]

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College to slash another 55 jobs in effort to save £2m

A college in financial crisis has announced plans to shed another 55 jobs in a move that is expected to save it £2.2 million annually. West Nottinghamshire College has undergone a major restructure over recent years to try and find savings, with its staffing numbers falling from a high of 967 in 2013 to 744 […]

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The principal who took over two failed colleges and came out smiling

Mike Hopkins has more experience than most principals of overseeing college mergers. In January of this year South and City College Birmingham, which he heads, received its second successive grade 2 Ofsted, despite having absorbed two failing colleges in the past seven years. FE Week asked how they managed it In 2012, before area reviews […]

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