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Government says they will fail Conservative manifesto commitment to 3 million apprenticeship starts

Education secretary Damian Hinds has admitted the government will miss its target of 3 million apprenticeship starts by next year. The target was set in the Conservatives’ 2015 election manifesto, and also included in the party’s 2017 manifesto. While appearing before the Commons Education Select Committee, its chair Robert Halfon repeatedly pressed Hinds on whether […]

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Procured funding is unfair to independent training providers

Ian Ross explains why he has asked the education select committee to launch an inquiry into adult education budget funding It is now two years since the Education and Skills Funding Agency launched its procurement exercise for adult education budget (AEB) funding. While colleges and local authorities receive an annual automatic funding allocation, colleges can […]

Opinion

The move towards professionalising governance

More and more colleges are appointing directors of governance and are even paying their governors, as they look to professionalise these roles in the shadow of mergers and the insolvency regime. FE Week has taken closer look at how and why this practice has come about. The importance of governors has never been higher, with […]

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Layoffs loom at RNN Group as DfE cuts off bailouts

One of the biggest college groups in the country has said it has “no alternative” than to cut staff numbers as it battles to cut its deficit, knowing it will “no longer be ‘bailed out’ by the government”. The RNN Group, which has around 1,200 staff and nearly 15,000 students, has put 130 jobs at […]

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College in ‘cash crisis’ to cut 51 jobs

A college has announced plans to cut its staff numbers by 10 per cent, months after the FE Commissioner reported it was in a “cash crisis”. Fifty one full-time jobs out of a total of 466 are expected to go at Northumberland College, which was graded as ‘requires improvement’ by Ofsted before merging with Sunderland […]

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Bank forced to gift millions to college

Government officials forced a major bank to halve a £40 million unsecured loan after threatening to put a college into insolvency. In a highly unusual move, Lloyds Banking Group agreed to slash Bradford College’s debt to £20 million in return for halving the write-off costs with the Department for Education. The details of the last-minute […]

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Communities pay the real price when an FE college shuts down

Spectacular failures could be the cost for a more innovative FE sector, says Mick Fletcher. But is it a price worth paying? Hadlow College is the first to experience the Department for Education’s new college bankruptcy regime, but we can be fairly certain that it won’t be the last. After all, the government wouldn’t have […]

Opinion

Troubled Easton and Otley College to be demerged and taken over

A troubled land-based college is to be broken up and merged with two other colleges, following two consecutive ‘inadequate’ ratings by Ofsted. Easton and Otley College was told to urgently improve its leadership earlier this year after the FE Commissioner raised serious quality and financial concerns. Just a few of months ago the college, which […]

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West Notts College university centre less than half-full three years after opening

A university centre at the troubled West Nottinghamshire College has had to revise down its learner growth numbers by a massive 76 per cent. A report by local enterprise partnership D2N2 reveals Vision University Centre, based on the college’s main campus in Mansfield, is aiming to increase its number of students by just 140 in […]

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